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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and interpersonal control, beginning by early adulthood at latest. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) may be evident by: >…
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- Aerosinusitis Sinus troubles, particularly with pain, due to changing atmospheric pressures, as when going up or down in a…
- Interatrial septum The partition separating the upper chambers (the atria) of the heart
- Attenuated virus To attenuate is to weaken or to make (or become) thin. The word derives from a combination of the Latin…
- Kidney disease screening Screening (looking) for early kidney disease in people who are not already known to have it. Kidney disease…
- Vampire children Perjorative term for children with xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disease with such extraordinary…
- Neurology The medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the nervous system -- the…
- Cyte A genetic term referring to the visual appearance of a chromosome when stained and examined under a…
- OS (lens prescription) Abbreviation of 'oculus sinister.' Latin for 'left eye.' By contrast, OD stands for 'oculus dexter' which is…
- Vertebra, prominent The 7th cervical (neck) vertebra (C7) is sometimes called the prominent vertebra because of the length of its…
- Q.d. (on prescription) Seen on a prescription, q.d. (or qd) means one a day (from the Latin quaque die). The abbreviation is…