See Also: phosphatic(medicine)

gestalt (iou) and phosphatic (medicine)


gestalt (iou)



gestalt noun. Also Gestalt. E20.
[German = form, shape.]
Chiefly Psychology. An integrated perceptual structure or unity conceived as functionally more than the sum of its parts.
Comb.: gestalt psychology a school of psychology maintaining that perceptions, reactions, etc., are gestalts; gestalt therapy a psychotherapeutic approach that focuses on insight into gestalts in patients and their relations to the world, and often uses role playing to aid the resolution of past conflicts.
gestaltism noun gestalt psychology M20.
gestaltist noun an adherent or practitioner of the principles of gestalt psychology M20.

phosphatic (medicine)


phosphatic
<chemistry> Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules.

<medicine> Phosphatic diathesis, a habit of body which leads to the undue excretion of phosphates with the urine.

Source: Websters Dictionary