See Also: Defense mechanisms(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
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Coping mechanisms(health)
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First-Order motion mechanisms(health)
health care evaluation mechanisms(medicine)
Oils(medicine)
absolute oils(medicine)
plant oils(medicine)

oils, volatile (medicine) and Defense mechanisms (medicine)


oils, volatile (medicine)


oils, volatile
Oils which evaporate readily. The volatile oils occur in aromatic plants, to which they give odour and Other characteristics. most volatile oils consist of a mixture of two or more terpenes or of a mixture of an eleopten (the more volatile constituent of a volatile oil) with a stearopten (the more solid constituent). The synonym essential oils refers to the essence of a plant, as its perfume or scent, and not to its indispensibility.


Defense mechanisms (medicine)


defense mechanisms
Unconscious process used by an individual or a group of individuals in order to cope with impulses, feelings or ideas which are not acceptable at their conscious level; various types include reaction formation, projection and self reversal.