complex

(kom’plek:) [L. complex’us woven together]. 1. Complicated; not simple. 2. The sum or combination of various things, like or unlike, as, a complex of symptoms. See syndrome. 3. The Freudjan term for a series of emotionally accentuated ideas in a repre ed state (Brill). calearine c., the hippocampus minor. electra c., a series of symptoms attributed to suppre ed sexual love of a woman for her father. Q us’ c., a series of symptoms attributed to suppre ed sexual desire of a person for his mother.