(linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence; placing the topic…
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Echolalia
(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
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The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.of Reveal
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.the act of disclosing something that was secret or private
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.the act of disclosing something that was secret or private
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to repr…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.an unintentional disclosure
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.of Inform
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a lea…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.of Sing
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.of Tell
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Linguistics, Pragmatics.To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public i…
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schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and biz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and biz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.Language that is meaningless or hard to understand
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and biz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, mechanical, meaningless, repetition, words.
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