(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.Dementia praecox
any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
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(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic ba…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.Words connected by meaning
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enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.(computer graphics) a technique that is used to smooth jagged distortions in curves and diagonal lines so they appear smoother
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain pre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, emplo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, psychotic, disorders, characterized, distortions.Explore Academic Dictionary
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