a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.
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Clinical depression
a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
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a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.
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a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citatio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.a state of clinical depression in which the person exhibits irritability and restlessness
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.A state in which mental processes are under the control of the emotions.; "The original idea of catathymia forwarded by Maier (1912),…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citatio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citatio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.scientifically detached; unemotional; "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects; in the United States it is conducted un…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.A study that tests a treatment or healthcare approach in people.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.In a clinical manner.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citatio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.To require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular case);…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, anhedonia, severe, require, clinical.(psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and mor…
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