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Coprolalia
The excessive and uncontrollable use of foul or obscene language, including words related to feces (bowel waste). Coprolalia is a typical symptom of Tourette syndrome, a condition that has its onset in childhood and is characterized by…
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- Fear of age An abnormal and persistent fear of growing old is termed gerascophobia. Sufferers of gerascophobia feel undue…
- Fetishism Fetishism is a problem in which a person has sexual urges associated with non-living objects. The person…
- Lentigines When there is one lentigo, there are usually more lentigines
- Cerebrospinal fluid CSF. A watery fluid, continuously produced and absorbed, which flows in the ventricles (cavities) within the…
- Carcinoma Cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover body organs. For example, carcinoma can arise…
- Melomania A singular passion for music that is beyond all reason. From the French melomanie, from the Latin melos, song…
- Spasm, nictitating Spasm of the eyelid with continuous winking. To nictitiate is to wink. 'Nictitate' and the older verb…
- Needle stick See: Needlestick injury
- Medicine, Chinese See: Traditional Chinese medicine
- Frozen shoulder Frozen shoulder: Constant severe limitation of the range of motion of the shoulder due to scarring around the…