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maternal deprivation syndrome (medicine) and Automatic (medicine)


maternal deprivation syndrome (medicine)


maternal deprivation syndrome
<syndrome> A failure to thrive seen in infants and young children and exhibited as a constellation of physical signs, symptoms, and behaviours, usually associated with maternal loss, absence or neglect, and characterised by lack of responsiveness to the environment and often depression.


Automatic (medicine)


automatic -->
automatical


1. Having an inherent power of action or motion. "Nothing can be said to be automatic." (Sir H. Davy)

2. Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the Nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; especially. Applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.

3. Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions. "Unconscious or automatic reasoning." (H. Spenser) Automatic arts, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery.

Origin: Cf. F. Automatique. See Automaton.

Source: Websters Dictionary