[ahy-suh-ley-shuh
n, is-uh-] 
| 1. | an act or instance of isolating. |
| 2. | the state of being isolated. |
| 3. | the complete separation from others of a person suffering from contagious or infectious disease; quarantine. |
| 4. | the separation of a nation from other nations by isolationism. |
| 5. | Psychoanalysis. a process whereby an idea or memory is divested of its emotional component. |
| 6. | Sociology. social isolation. |
| i·so·la·tion (ī'sə-lā'shən) n.
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isolation i·so·la·tion (ī'sə-lā'shən)
n.
The act of isolating or the state of being isolated.
isolation
in medicine, separation of an infected individual (human or animal) from the healthy until that individual is no longer able to transmit the disease. In its strictest sense, the practice of isolation differs from that of quarantine, which is the detention of an individual who may have been exposed to a communicable disease until it is deemed certain that he has escaped infection. See quarantine
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