Medical Dictionary

2unconscious

noun

Medical Definition of UNCONSCIOUS

:  the part of mental life that is not ordinarily integrated or available to consciousness yet may be manifested as a motive force in overt behavior (as in neurosis) and is often revealed (as through dreams, slips of the tongue, or dissociated acts)—compare subconscious

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