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elaboration /elab·o·ra·tion/ (ĕ-lab″ah-ra´shun)
1. the process of producing complex substances out of simpler materials.
2. in psychiatry, an unconscious mental process of expansion and embellishment of detail, especially of a symbol or representation in a dream.

e·lab·o·ra·tion (-lb-rshn)
n.
1. The process of working out in detail by labor and study.
2. The mental process occurring partly during dreaming and partly during the recalling or telling of a dream, by means of which the latent content of the dream is brought into increasingly more coherent and logical order, resulting in the manifest content of the dream.

e·labo·rate v.

elaboration
[ilab′ərāshən]
Etymology: L, elaborare, to work out
(in endocrinology) a process by which a gland synthesizes a complex substance from simpler substances and secretes it, usually under the stimulation of a tropic hormone from the pituitary gland. This process, regulated by a negative feedback system, which includes the hypothalamus, pituitary, and target gland, serves to maintain homeostasis in body function. elaborate, adj.

elaboration
the process of producing complex substances out of simpler materials.

elaboration
Psychiatry An unconscious process of expansion and embellishment of detail, especially with reference to a symbol or representation in a dream

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