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avoidance

[ah-void´ans]

a conscious or unconscious defense mechanism consisting of refusal to encounter situations, activities, or objects that would produce conflict.

a·void·ance

(a-voyd'-ants),

In psychiatry, a term describing a decrease in strength of relationships or fear and withdrawal when conflict emerges. See: attachment. Compare: approach.

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avoidance

Psychiatry The intentional skirting of new interpersonal contacts to the extent of impairing social function

a·void·ance

(ă-voydăns)

In psychiatry, a term describing a decrease in strength of relationships or fear and withdrawal when conflict emerges.

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

a·void·ance

(ă-voydăns)

In psychiatry, a term describing a decrease in strength of relationships or fear and withdrawal when conflict emerges.
See: attachment

Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012

Patient discussion about avoidance

Q. Which food should be consumed and which should be avoided. Found some months before that my mother has very painful gout. Which food should be consumed and which should be avoided and why?

A. Changing the nutrition profile will be of help and a good medical treatment for gout is also available. High protein food should be avoided. But lamb, pork, bacon, chicken, all fish, peas, beans and lentils can be taken in small amount, as protein is an important requirement for nutritional fulfillment, its intake should be in very small amounts. Alcohol should be reduced greatly, especially wine and beer. A good fluid intake of plain water is advised. Foods that aggravate shall be avoided.

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Q. how to avoid breast cancer? i heard that wearing bras when sleeping causes breast cancer and i've been doing this for the past 2 years and now i'm so scared

A. I'm not sure how to avoid it but I can tell you for sure that going to check yourself every year is extremely important and has helped save so many lives. you can never be too carefull...

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Bifurcating avoidance into a canon and a remedy resolves the contradiction between avoidance as an interpretive tool and avoidance as a means of changing the law.

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"The process of inheriting this learned avoidance [also] requires the activity of small RNAs called piRNA," Murphy said.

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The index scores each country's system based on the degree to which it enables corporate tax avoidance combined with the scale of its corporate activity to determine the share of global corporate activity put at risk of tax avoidance by the country.

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Participation involved completing an online survey delivered through the Qualtrics survey platform, which assessed a wide range of variables, with a subset reported for the current study as relevant to studying the role of experiential avoidance in problematic viewing.

The Role of Experiential Avoidance in Problematic Pornography Viewing

New Delhi [India], Nov 26 ( ANI ): The Governments of India and China on Monday amended the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) for avoidance of double taxation, and prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.

Protocol amending India-China DTAA to eliminate double taxation

We examine how corporate governance affects the relationship between a firm's tax avoidance behavior and its financial constraints.