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Schizoaffective disorder
Schizoaffective disorder: A mood disorder that is coupled with some symptoms resembling those of schizophrenia, particularly loss of personality (flat affect) and/or social withdrawal.
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- Achondrogenesis-hypochondrogenesis, type II See: Achondrogenesis type II
- XX gonadal dysgenesis with sensorineural deafness See Perrault syndrome
- Romano-Ward syndrome See: Long QT syndrome
- Decortication Removal of part or all of the outer surface of an organ such as the lung, kidney, or brain
- Infection, Neisseria An infection acquired in a hospital. Specifically an infection that was not present or incubating prior to…
- Typhus fever See: Typhus
- Thai hemorrhagic fever A syndrome due to the dengue virus that tends to affect children under 10, causing abdominal pain, hemorrhage…
- Strain 1. An injury to a tendon or muscle resulting from overuse or trauma. 2. A hereditary tendency that originated…
- Enzyme, Warburg's yellow A key respiratory enzyme discovered by the German biochemist Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883-1970), a pioneer in…
- Thyroid A blood protein that binds with the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4).
- Distention The state of being distended, enlarged, swollen from internal pressure. For example, on inhalation there is…