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, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.
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(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
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Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity, Psychiatry.a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity, Psychiatry.a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.(psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in p…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity, Psychiatry.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, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.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, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.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, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.any mental disorder in which delusions play a significant role
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.The act of depressing.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity, Abnormal 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, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.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, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.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, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.involuntary defecation not attributable to physical defects or illness
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.the simultaneous occurrence of symptoms of a mental disorder (as delusions) in two persons who are closely related (as siblings or man…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry.any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predom…
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The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, psychological, disorder, thought, emotion.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, psychological, disorder, thought, emotion.a personality disorder characterized by amorality and lack of affect; capable of violent acts without guilt feelings (‘psychopathic pe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, psychological, disorder, thought, emotion.To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, psychological, disorder, thought, emotion.the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, psychological, disorder, thought, emotion.Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, psychological, disorder, thought, emotion.conditioning that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that evokes a reflex; the stimulus that evokes the reflex is given whether…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, psychological, disorder, thought, emotion.A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, psychological, disorder, thought, emotion.The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, psychological, disorder, thought, emotion.Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
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