surrogate (redirected from surrogates)

surrogate /sur·ro·gate/ (sur´o-git) a substitute; a thing or person that takes the place of something or someone else, as a drug used in place of another, or a person who takes the place of another in someone's affective existence.

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sur·ro·gate (sûr-gt, -gt)

n.

1. One that takes the place of another; a substitute.

2. A person or an animal that functions as a substitute for another, as in a social or family role.

3. A figure of authority who takes the place of the father or mother in a person's unconscious or emotional life.

4. A surrogate mother.

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surrogate

[sur′əgāt]

Etymology: L, surrogare, to substitute

1 a substitute; a person or thing that replaces another.

2 a person who represents and acts as a parent, taking the place of the father or mother.

3 (in psychoanalysis) a substitute parental figure, a symbolic image or representation of another, as may occur in a dream. The identity of the person represented often remains in the unconscious.

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surrogate [sur´o-gat]

a substitute; a thing or person that takes the place of something or someone else, as a drug used in place of another, or, in psychoanalysis, the projection onto another person of one's mother or father image and unconscious and inappropriate response to that person with the feelings and attitudes felt for the real mother or father.

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surrogate,

n 1., a replacement.
2., in homeopathy, a substitute medicine for the exact remedy. See also simillimum.

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surrogate (sur´git),

n a substitute; a person or thing that replaces another.

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surrogate

a substitute; a thing or animal that takes the place of something or some animal, as a drug used in place of another, or, in animal husbandry, an animal which takes the place of another in the family or herd environment.