Accounting

Accounting

Includes the principles as well as the system of documenting and summarizing business and financial transactions and analyzing, verifying, and reporting the results.

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autistic thinking

Health care; Psychiatry

Autistic thinking is a term used to refer to thinking not in accordance with the facts of reality and emphasizes preoccupation with inner experience. See also Dereistic thinking.

autochthonous delusion

Health care; Psychiatry

Jaspers defined this as a delusion arising without apparent cause. For example, suddendly, without apparent cause, having the delusional belief that you are an alien.

autokabalesis

Health care; Psychiatry

An uncommonly used term used for suicide committed by jumping from a very high place.

automatic obedience

Health care; Psychiatry

Automatic obedience is an exaggerated co-operation with an examiner's request, as if the patient were an 'automaton' robotically obeying a command. It is usually a sign of ...

automatism

Health care; Psychiatry

Automatisms are sequences of activity that occur without conscious control. They may be simple and repetitive (tic-like) or complex, and are usually natural-looking but ...

autoscopy

Health care; Psychiatry

Autoscopy is the reduplicative hallucination of "seeing one's own body at a distance" and the person sees it from the original place where he or she is sitting like a musician ...

belle Indifference

Health care; Psychiatry

A mental state characterized by a lack of concern and an indifference about a disability or symptom and is seen in hysteria or dissociative disorders.