Category: S

  • Sacrosciatic

    Sacrum and lowest part of hip bone.  

  • Sacrolumbar

    Sacrum and loin. Pertaining to the sacrum and the lower back.  

  • Sacrolisthesis

    Sacrum lies in front of the vertebra immediately above it. A deformity in which the sacrum is anterior to the fifth lumbar vertebra.  

  • Sacrococcyx

    The tail bone and triangular bone just above it (sacrum).  

  • Sacrococcygeal

    Tail bone and triangular bone just above it (sacrum). Referring to the sacrum and the coccyx. Relating to the sacrum and the coccyx.  

  • Excitometabolic

    Stimulating all of the body’s physical and chemical processes.  

  • Two-factor theory of emotion

    According to Schachter, a person’s emotional experience requires generalized physical arousal followed by a cognitive label for the arousal.  

  • Systemic

    Spread throughout the body. Affecting, generally, all body systems. Referring to or affecting the whole body. A term which, in referring to a disease, means a disease that affects the body as a whole. Affecting the body as a whole, rather than individual parts. Affecting organs and tissues throughout the body rather than a specific…

  • Systemized delusion

    A set of highly organized mistaken beliefs that have become the dominant focus of a paranoid patient’s life.  

  • Systematic rational restructuring

    A type of rational-emotive therapy in which the patient imagines of series of increasingly threatening situations while talking about them in a more realistic, diffusing fashion.