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ritual (medicine) and neonatal sepsis (medicine)


ritual (medicine)


ritual


In psychiatry and psychology, any psychomotor activity (e.g., morbid handwashing) sustained by an individual to relieve anxiety or forestall its development; typically seen in obsessive-compulsive neurosis.

Origin: L. Ritualis, fr. Ritus, rite


neonatal sepsis (medicine)


neonatal sepsis
<paediatrics> A serious blood-borne bacterial infection in the infant who is less than 4 months of age.

A common causative agent is haemophilus influenza type b. Babies who are septic are usually listless, weak, overly sleepy, not urinating and pale.