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Split personality
Multiple personality disorder, a neurosis in which the personality becomes dissociated into two or more distinct parts each of which becomes dominant and controls behavior from time to time to the exclusion of the other parts
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Show more- Trismus and pseudocamptodactyly syndrome See: Hecht syndrome
- Reproduction The production of offspring. Reproduction need not be sexual. Yeast can reproduce by budding
- Automated white cell differential A machine-generated percentage of the different types of white blood cells, usually split into granulocytes…
- Laminopathy A disease due to mutation of the lamin A/C gene. The laminopathies include: Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy…
- Toxic agent syndrome See: Toxic syndrome
- Subacute Rather recent onset or somewhat rapid change. The term 'subacute' is used in contrast to acute which…
- Pancreatic insufficiency Not enough of the digestive enzymes normally secreted by the pancreas into the intestine. Pancreatic…
- Rate, sed A sedimentation rate, or 'sed rate', is a blood test that detects and is used to monitor inflammation…
- Mad deer disease See Chronic wasting disease
- Thoracic Pertaining to the chest
- Contraceptive, combined oral Commonly called 'the pill,' combined oral contraceptives are the most commonly used form of reversible birth…
- Martorell syndrome Named after Fernando Martorell Otzet, Spanish cardiologist (1906-1984). In 1944 Martorell provided an…