Definition of "self-limited" [self-limited]

• Limited by its or one's own characteristics rather than by external influences. (adjective)
• Medicine Running a definite course within a specific period; little modified by treatment. Used of a disease. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Most maintain a very narrow focus and within their self-limited worldview truly believe they are doing/supporting something unquestionably good."
• "Do they add anything meaningful to the canon by skulking around every cyber corner, waiting to pounce on any advocate of insights contrary to their own, self-limited world view?"
• "While the majority of concussions are self-limited injuries, there is increasing concern about the effects of multiple head injuries (including chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a dementia that can develop) and sequential concussions (such as life-threatening second-impact syndrome)."