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optimism (medicine)


optimism


1. <psychology> The opinion or doctrine that everything in Nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.

2. A disposition to take the most hopeful view; opposed to pessimism.

Origin: L. Optimus the best; akin to optio choice: cf. F. Optimisme. See Option.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Reflecting (medicine)


reflecting


1. Throwing back light, heat, etc, as a mirror or Other surface.

2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind. Reflecting circle, an astronomical instrument for measuring angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having an entire circle. Reflecting galvanometer, a galvanometer in which the deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image of a scale; called also mirror galvanometer. Reflecting goniometer. See Goniometer. Reflecting telescope. See Telescope.

Source: Websters Dictionary