Complex: (1) An organized constellation of feelings, thoughts, perceptions, and memories that may be in part unconscious and may strongly influence associations and attitudes. (2) In jungian psychology, a personification of an archetype from the collective unconscious, residing in the personal unconscious. (3) chemistry the relatively stable combination of two or more compounds into a larger molecule without covalent binding. (4) A composite of chemical or immunologic structures. (5) A structural anatomic entity made up of three or more interrelated parts. (6) In electroencephalography, a recognizable series of waveforms that typically recur at intervals. (7) An informal term used to denote a group of individual structures known or believed to be related anatomically, embryologically, or physiologically. (8) SYN: sequence. [L. complexus, woven together]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
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