Self-examination

Definition: Self-examination

Self-examination

Noun

1. The contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct.

Date "self-examination" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1702. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Self-examination

Domain	Definitions
Health	The inspection of one's own body, usually for signs of disease (e.g., breast self-examination, testicular self-examination). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Self-examination

Synonyms: introspection (n), self-contemplation (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Self-examination

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Worship	Discipline; self-discipline, self-examination, self-denial; fasting.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Self-examination

English words defined with "self-examination": Self-examinant. (references)

Specialty definitions using "self-examination": Breast Self-Examination. (references)

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Modern Usage: Self-examination

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Oral Self-Examination (1989)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Self-examination

Domain	Title
Books	Study Guide and Self-Examination Review for Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Breast Self-Examination (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Self-examination

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	A rear view of a black woman performing a breast self-examination (BSE) and is dressed in a towel framed against a brown-gold background. See artwork: GR-42.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).		Shown is an adult black woman nude from the waist up performing breast self-examination (BSE). Her left arm is raised and she is examining her left breast with her right hand. She is also seen outside a shower setting.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).
	Adult white woman is performing breast self-examination (BSE) in the shower. Her left arm is raised and she is examining her left breast. She is nude from the waist up and the photo includes her head (with a shower cap) to her waist area.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).		Illustration showing a woman after a mastectomy performing the steps in a breast self-examination (BSE).Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
	Illustration showing a woman after a mastectomy performing the steps in a breast self-examination (BSE).Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Illustration showing a woman after a mastectomy performing the steps in a breast self-examination (BSE).Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
	Illustration showing a woman after a mastectomy performing the steps in a breast self-examination (BSE).Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Illustration showing a woman after a mastectomy performing the steps in a breast self-examination (BSE).Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
	Illustration showing a woman after a mastectomy performing the steps in a breast self-examination (BSE).Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Self-examination

Author	Quotation
Francois FTNelon	Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Self-examination

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This regimen requires monthly self-examination by the patient and physician examination initially at 4-to 6-month intervals. (references)
		Patients can assist in their management by performing monthly self-examination of the skin. In addition, patients should be counseled to avoid excessive sun exposure and to use protective clothing and sunscreens. (references)
Human Rights	China	Under the new system, parties have more difficulty influencing judges because they would no longer have advance notice of who the judge in a given case is to be. The SPC also implemented a self-examination and responsibility system to hold presidents of higher people's courts responsible for the actions of their subordinates. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Self-examination

"Self-examination" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "Self-examination" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.83%	23	72,767
Adjective (general or positive)	4.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	24	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Self-examination

Expression using "self-examination": Breast Self-Examination. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Self-examination

Language		Translations for "self-examination"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		反省. (various references)

Finnish		itsetutkistelu. (various references)

Greek		αυτοέλεγχοσ (self control). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		自省 (reflection). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じせい (conditions, death, death poem, growing wild, homemade, magnetism, native, passing away, reflection, self control, self restraint, spirit of the age, tense, the times, trends). (various references)

Korean		반성 (reflecting). (various references)

Manx		scrutaghey cooinsheanse. (various references)

Pig Latin		elf-examinationsay

Portuguese		introspecção (insight, introspection, introspective, self-observation), exame de consciência. (various references)

Russian		самоанализ (introspection, self-awareness, the study of the self), самопроверка. (various references)

Spanish		examen de conciencia (soul searching). (various references)

Swedish		självrannsakan (heart-searching, soul searching), självprövning. (various references)

Ukranian		самокритика (self-criticism), самоперевірка. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tự vấn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Self-examination

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-f-i-i-l-m-n-n-o-s-t-x"
	-3 letters: examinations.
	-4 letters: alienations, antimonials, examination, extensional, laminations, nationalise, nationalism, nonfamilies.
	-5 letters: aflatoxins, alienation, alinements, animations, antifemale, antimonial, antimonies, antinomies, eliminates, emanations, examinants, exfoliates, flexitimes, inflations, inflexions, inseminate, lamination, lineaments, lineations, melatonins, nominalist, tamoxifens.
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