elaboration

elaboration definition - medical

e·lab·o·ra·tion (ĭ-lăbˌə-rāˈshən)

noun
  1. The process of working out in detail by labor and study.
  2. The mental process occurring partly during dreaming and partly during the recalling or telling of a dream, by means of which the latent content of the dream is brought into increasingly more coherent and logical order, resulting in the manifest content of the dream.

Related Forms:

  • e·labˈo·rateˌ verb

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