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Lovemap
Lovemap A developmental representation or template synchronously in the mind and in the brain depicting the idealized lover, the idealized love affair, and the idealized program of sexuoerotic activity projected in imagery or actually engaged in with the lover.
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Brain
"That part of the central nervous system that is located within the cranium (skull). The brain functions as the primary receiver, organizer and distributor of information for the body. It has two (right and left) halves called ""hemispheres."" "
Love
The personal experience and manifest expression of being attached or bonded to another person. There is sacred and profane love, and affectional and erotic love. The word is also used in the vernacular as a synonym for like.
Sexuoerotic
The sexual and the erotic experienced as a unity, with more emphasis on sexual behavior than erotic imagery.
Imagery
In mental life, the collective representation of mental images or depictions of anything either perceived (perceptual imagery) or, if not actually present as a sensory stimulus, recognized in memory (memory imagery), or in dream, confabulation, or fantasy (fictive imagery). Imagery refers to a predominantly visual sensory modality of input.
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Love
The personal experience and manifest expression of being attached or bonded to another person. There is sacred and profane love, and affectional and erotic love. The word is also used in the vernacular as a synonym for like.
Loveblot
A person (or image) who sufficiently resembles the [person or] image depicted in someone else's lovemap as to become the recipient onto whom the lovemap is projected in a limerent love affair, regardless of whether the response is one of love requited or, being unrequited, induces a pathological reaction of lovesickness.
Lovelace Health System
Lovelace Health System is a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA).
Lovemap displacement
An intrinsic element that, developmentally dislocated from its regular place, becomes repositioned in a lovemap, changing it from a normophilic lovemap into a paraphilic one of the displacement type--for example, genital display in paraphilic exhibitionism.
Lovemap inclusion
An extraneous element that becomes developmentally incorporated into a lovemap, changing it from a normophilic lovemap into a paraphilic one of the inclusion type--for example, paraphilic fetishism.
Lovenox
Lovenox is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): enoxaparin sodium.
Lovenox preservative free
Lovenox preservative free is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): enoxaparin sodium.
Lovesickness
The personal experience and manifest expression of agony when the partner with whom one has fallen in love is a total mismatch whose response is indifference, or a partial mismatch whose reciprocity is incomplete, deficient, anomalous, or otherwise unsatisfactory.
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Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH)
From the hypothalamus, a hormone that triggers the release of the pituitary gonadotropins, LH and FSH. LH frees the ovum and changes its graafian follicle into the corpus luteum. LHRH, LRH, LRF (F = factor), and GnRH (gonadotropin-releasing hormone) are synonymous.
Libido
Sexual drive, subjectively experienced and reported. Hypothetically, in psychoanalytic doctrine, it also means the positive life force of Eros as compared with Thanatos, the death force.
Limerence
A coined name for the experience of having fallen in love and being irrationally and fixatedly love-smitten, irrespective of the degree to which one's love is requited or unrequited. the state of having fallen in love and being love-smitten.
Love
The personal experience and manifest expression of being attached or bonded to another person. There is sacred and profane love, and affectional and erotic love. The word is also used in the vernacular as a synonym for like.
Loveblot
A person (or image) who sufficiently resembles the [person or] image depicted in someone else's lovemap as to become the recipient onto whom the lovemap is projected in a limerent love affair, regardless of whether the response is one of love requited or, being unrequited, induces a pathological reaction of lovesickness.
Lovemap
Lovemap displacement
An intrinsic element that, developmentally dislocated from its regular place, becomes repositioned in a lovemap, changing it from a normophilic lovemap into a paraphilic one of the displacement type--for example, genital display in paraphilic exhibitionism.
Lovemap inclusion
An extraneous element that becomes developmentally incorporated into a lovemap, changing it from a normophilic lovemap into a paraphilic one of the inclusion type--for example, paraphilic fetishism.
Lovesickness
The personal experience and manifest expression of agony when the partner with whom one has fallen in love is a total mismatch whose response is indifference, or a partial mismatch whose reciprocity is incomplete, deficient, anomalous, or otherwise unsatisfactory.
Lust
Longing, eagerness, inclination, or sensuous desire; normal sexual desire, or sexual desire stigmatized as degrading passion.
Lust murder
See erotophonophilia.
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