#isis

• Anuric — The feminine form of the adjective anuric; describes a pathological condition, an evolutionary phase of a disease, or a severe renal failure characterized by the complete cessation of urine elimination from the body.
• Apocrisis — A term used in ancient humoral medicine to denote the elimination, evacuation, or secretion of noxious matters, altered blood, or residues from the organism; the product of this pathological secretion. The concept was based on the idea that restoring a patient's health depended directly on purifying bodily fluids through natural biological crises.
• Arkhipov — A surname of Slavic origin, derived from the baptismal name Arhip, recognized globally in modern history and 20th-century geopolitics due to Soviet naval officer Vasili Arkhipov, who prevented the outbreak of a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). In Eastern European onomastics, the name carries a historical weight related to individual courage, absolute moral responsibility, and strategic discernment during moments of global crisis.
• Arthroereisis — A minimally invasive orthopedic surgical intervention consisting of introducing an implant or an artificial bone block inside or near a joint, aiming to selectively limit an abnormal or exaggerated movement without completely suppressing global mobility. This procedure is frequently used in treating loose flatfoot in children, acting as a mechanical stop that guides the correct alignment of tarsal bones during growth.
• Attack — The act of attacking and its result; a violent offensive executed against an enemy with the purpose of destroying them or capturing a position. In sports, it represents the game phase in which a team holds the initiative and attempts to score points. In medicine, it defines the sudden and violent onset of a disease or a physiological or psychological crisis.
• To admire oneself — To admire oneself excessively, often with a feeling of exaggerated pride, vanity, or narcissism; to view one's own physical qualities, achievements, or character traits with extreme satisfaction, completely ignoring the opinions or criticisms of others.
• Self-admiration — The act of admiring oneself or its result; excessive and often unjustified admiration for one's own person, appearance, intelligence, or achievements. In clinical psychology, it is considered a core component of narcissistic behavior and ego-centered personality disorders.
• Self-admired — Having admired oneself or being self-admired excessively; a person characterized by an exaggerated satisfaction with their own achievements, qualities, or physical appearance, often manifesting traits of vanity or egocentrism.
• Self-admiration — A feeling of deep, often exaggerated and uncritical admiration that a person harbors toward themselves, their own qualities, actions, or physical appearance; a state of eccentric self-satisfaction structurally approaching the manifestations of narcissism.
• To self-deify — To consider oneself a deity or to consciously or pathologically attribute divine qualities, absolute perfection, and supernatural powers to oneself; to undergo an inner process of extreme glorification of one's own ego, often associated with megalomania, clinical narcissism, or historical cults of personality.
• Self-deification — The act of self-deifying and its result; the psychological, cultural, or political process by which an individual elevates themselves to the status of a deity or arrogates the attributes of divinity, manifested through immeasurable pride and the denial of one's own human limitations.
• To praise oneself — To bring exaggerated praise upon oneself, to flatter or glorify oneself publicly or privately; to undergo a discursive process of narcissistic self-commendation, often with the aim of imposing authority or masking structural flaws in character.
• Self-praise — The act of praising oneself and its result; the discursive or behavioral process by which an individual commends themselves publicly or privately, often manifested as a psychological compensation mechanism or as a form of exacerbated egocentrism.
• Autoerastie — A rare form of psychosexual manifestation or behavioral deviation where erotic attraction, desire, and satisfaction are directed exclusively toward oneself; sexual narcissism taken to the extreme, where the individual becomes their own object of worship and bodily passion.
• Autofetishism — A psychological and behavioral manifestation where a person derives sexual satisfaction or arousal by focusing on their own body, specific body parts, or by wearing personal items and clothing viewed as fetishistic stimuli. It is closely related in literature to autosexuality and erotic narcissism, representing an exclusive channeling of libido toward oneself.
• Autophilia — An emphasized form of self-love; a psychological tendency manifested through excessive admiration, affective fixation, or erotic attraction oriented exclusively toward one's own body or person. In scientific literature, the term is frequently used as a conceptual equivalent to severe narcissism or clinical autosexuality.
• Self-enchantment — A state of exaggerated, often unfounded admiration for one's own qualities, achievements, or actions; self-delusion fueled by vanity or narcissism. In a psychological sense, it represents a self-defense or compensatory mechanism through which an individual distorts their perception of subjective reality, isolating themselves in a sterile self-admiration that hinders authentic spiritual or intellectual progress.
• Autolatry — Cult-like adoration or mystical and absolute veneration of oneself; an extreme and pathological form of egolatry and narcissism where the individual relates to themselves as a divinity or a supreme ideal. In moral analysis and psychoanalysis, the term goes beyond simple vanity, describing a profound spiritual rupture whereby the ego becomes the sole object of worship, erasing any capacity for transcendence or genuine empathy towards others.