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Bipolar I disorder
Bipolar disorder in someone who has experienced depression and at least one episode of severe mania. Severe mania characteristically causes significant distress or greatly impairs one's work, family, or social life. Bipolar I disorder is…
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- Basal cell carcinoma Basal cell carcinoma: The most common type of skin cancer, a disease in which the cancer cells resemble the…
- Transvestite A person who dresses in the clothing of the opposite sex, i.e., a person who cross-dresses
- Wolfram syndrome A genetic neurodegenerative disease that leads to many different abnormalities including diabetes insipidus…
- Anorgasmy Or anorgasmia. Failure of a male or female to achieve an orgasm (climax) during sexual intercourse…
- Magnesium A mineral involved in many processes in the body including nerve signaling, the building of healthy bones…
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross See: Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
- Meadow syndrome After Dr. Roy Meadow, the pediatrician who coined the term Munchhausen syndrome by proxy
- Ischium Bone making up the lower down back part of the pelvis
- Seizure, Jacksonian See: Jacksonian seizure
- Phenomenon, Raynaud's A condition resulting in discoloration of fingers and/or toes when a person is exposed to changes in…
- Arthroscopy Arthroscopy: A surgical technique whereby a tube-like instrument is inserted into a joint to inspect…