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dissociative identity disorder
dissociative identity disorder see multiple personality .... Read more |
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Celiac Disease
Celiac disease Definition Celiac disease is a disease of the digestive system in which the inside lining of the small intestine (mucosa) is damaged after eating wheat, rye, oats, or barley, resulting in interference with the absorption of nutrients from... Read more |
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Personality disorders
Personality disorders Definition Personality disorders (PD) are a group of psychiatric conditions characterized by experience and behavior patterns that cause serious problems with respect to any two of the following: thinking, mood, personal relations, and the control of impulses. Description Most... Read more |
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Multiple system atrophy
MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY Multiple system atrophy is a group of disorders that share common clinical features, which include Parkinsonism, problems with balance (ataxia), and dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system. It is a sporadic neurodegenerative disease of adult onset. Its cause remains... Read more |
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schizophrenia
schizophrenia , group of severe mental disorders characterized by reality distortions resulting in unusual thought patterns and behaviors. Because there is often little or no logical relationship between the thoughts and feelings of a person with schizophrenia, the disorder has often been called ... Read more |
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diverticulosis
diverticulosis a disorder characterized by the presence of diverticula, which are small, usually multiple saclike protrusions through the wall of the colon (large intestine ). Diverticula usually do not cause symptoms unless they become inflamed, in which case the condition is called ... Read more |
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Dependent
DEPENDENT A person whose support and maintenance is contingent upon the aid of another. Conditional. A dependent is someone who is sustained by another person, such as a child supported by his or her parents. In an insurance policy, the term legal dependent generally includes all of those people... Read more |
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Functional Disorder
Functional disorder A psychological disorder for which no organic cause can be found. Disorders traditionally classified as neuroses (including a variety of anxiety and mood disorders as well as psychosomatic illnesses) are generally regarded as functional disorders. While conditions... Read more |
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Impulse control disorders
Impulse control disorders Definition Impulse control disorders are a relatively new class of personality disorderscharacterized by an ongoing inability to resist impulses to perform actions that are harmful to oneself or others. The most common of these are ... Read more |
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larceny
larceny in law, the unlawful taking and carrying away of the property of another, with intent to deprive the owner of its use or to appropriate it to the use of the perpetrator or of someone else. It is usually distinguished from embezzlement and false pretenses in that the actual taking of the... Read more |
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Urlacher a special teamer
...to anybody else. Hall of...he has a personality illness called...identity disorder. Back in...terminology was multiple- personality...people'' inside of him...he struck me as a bright...him telling me, and his...wife told me she needed...separate lives. ... |
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Poisoned Memories; Danny Smith Was Tried for Child Abuse. Then His Daughter...
...perfectly at ease inside the modest...tried on multiple counts of...diagnosis of multiple personality disorder. A prolonged...hard for me to speak...landscape of her life. Among those...When someone tells you...anyone else would feed...Believe me, this ... |