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projection medical definition
noun
- The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.
- The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others.
- The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.
- The localization of visual impressions to a point in space relative to the person who is doing the viewing: straight ahead, right, left, above, or below.
- Any of the systems of nerve fibers by which a group of nerve cells discharges its nerve impulses to one or more other cell groups.
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