See Also: plesiomonas(medicine)

abreaction (iou) and plesiomonas (medicine)


abreaction (iou)



abreaction noun. E20.
[from AB- + REACTION, after German Abreagieren.]
Psychoanalysis. The relief of anxiety by the expression and release of a previously repressed emotion, through reliving the experience that caused it; an instance of this.
abreact verb trans. eliminate by abreaction E20.
abreactive adjective M20.

plesiomonas (medicine)


plesiomonas


A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that occurs in fish and Other aquatic animals and in a variety of mammals, including man. Its organisms probably do not belong to the normal intestinal flora of man and can cause diarrhoea.