See Also: placenta, retained(medicine)
retained placenta(medicine)
retained menstruation(medicine)
Retained earnings(finance)
Retained Earnings(money)
Retained root(health)
Statement of Retained Earnings(money)
Unappropriated Retained Earnings(money)
Retained earnings statement(finance)
Grantor Retained Uni-Trust(law)

Reaction formation (health) and placenta, retained (medicine)


Reaction formation (health)


A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which a person adopts affects, ideas, and behaviors that are the opposites of impulses harbored either consciously or unconsciously. For example, excessive moral zeal may be a reaction to strong but repressed asocial impulses.





placenta, retained (medicine)


placenta, retained


A placenta which is either adherent or incarcerated by irregular uterine contractions, and which in consequence fails to be expelled after birth.