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  2. Putrefaction - Wikipedia

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    Putrefaction is the fifth stage of death, following pallor mortis, livor mortis, algor mortis, and rigor mortis. This process references the breaking down of a body of an animal post-mortem . In broad terms, it can be viewed as the decomposition of proteins , and the eventual breakdown of the cohesiveness between tissues, and the liquefaction ...

  3. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    relating to putrefaction or decay Greek σαπρός (saprós), rotten, putrid saprogenic sarco-muscular, flesh-like Greek σάρξ (sárx), flesh sarcoma, sarcoidosis: scapul(o)-of or pertaining to the scapula: Latin , shoulder scapulothoracic, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: schist(o)-split, cleft

  4. Death drive - Wikipedia

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    The standard edition of Freud's works in English confuses two terms that are different in German, Instinkt (instinct) and Trieb (drive), often translating both as instinct; for example, "the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state". [10] "

  5. Fixation (histology) - Wikipedia

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    The sample of tissue is immersed in fixative solution for a set period of time. The fixative solution must have a volume at least 10 times greater than the volume of the tissue. [ 6 ] In order for fixation to be successful, the fixative must diffuse throughout the entire tissue, so tissue size and density, as well as type of fixative must be ...

  6. Psychological research - Wikipedia

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    Cross-sectional research is a research method often used in developmental psychology, but also utilized in many other areas including social science and education. This type of study utilizes different groups of people who differ in the variable of interest, but share other characteristics such as socioeconomic status, educational background ...

  7. Transference - Wikipedia

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    In The Psychology of the Transference, Carl Jung states that within the transference dyad, both participants typically experience a variety of opposites, that in love and in psychological growth, the key to success is the ability to endure the tension of the opposites without abandoning the process, and that this tension allows one to grow and ...

  8. Suggestive question - Wikipedia

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    A suggestive question is a question that implies that a certain answer should be given in response, [1] [2] or falsely presents a presupposition in the question as accepted fact. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Such a question distorts the memory thereby tricking the person into answering in a specific way that might or might not be true or consistent with their ...

  9. Undoing (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Freud first described the practice of undoing in his 1909 "Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis". Here he recounted how his patient (the "Rat Man") first removed a stone from the road in case his lady's carriage should overturn upon it, and thereafter 'felt obliged to go back and replace the stone in its original position in the middle of the road'. [2]