URL of this page: //medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001547.htm. Reactive attachment disorder is a problem with social interaction that occurs when a child's basic physical and emotional needs are neglected, particularly when the child is an infant. Reactive attachment disorder is caused by abuse or neglect of an infant's needs for:
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: carbon dioxide, CO2, carbonic acid gas(noun) a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis.
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is a product of respiration of all aerobic organisms. It is returned to water via the gills of fish and to the air via the lungs of air-breathing land animals, including humans.arbon dioxide dissolves in the ocean to form carbonic acid (H 2 CO 3), bicarbonate (HCO 3 â) and carbonate (CO 3 2â). There is about fifty times as much carbon dissolved in the oceans as exists in the atmosphere.