(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predom…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry.A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examinati…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry.a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry.the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in p…
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act of depressing.
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry.An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of re…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry.a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry.a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
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Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flood.Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flood.Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flood.A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flood.of Bear
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flood.Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flood.An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flood.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flood.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flood.A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flood.A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flood.Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate hou…
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