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Age-related macular degeneration: AML Acute myelogenous leukemia: AN Anorexia nervosa: AOCD Anemia of chronic disease: AODM Adult onset diabetes mellitus: AOS Apraxia of speech: APA Aldosterone-producing adenoma: APS Antiphospholipid syndrome: ARBD Alcohol-related birth defects: ARD Adult Refsum disease: ARDS Acute respiratory distress syndrome ...
Jehovah complex is a related term used in Jungian analysis to describe a neurosis of egotistical self-inflation. Use included in psychoanalytic contributions to psychohistory and biography, with, for example, Fritz Wittels using the term about Sigmund Freud in his 1924 biography [5] and H. E. Barnes using the term about George Washington and Andrew Jackson.
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...
An idiopathic disease is any disease with an unknown cause or mechanism of apparent spontaneous origin. [1]For some medical conditions, one or more causes are somewhat understood, but in a certain percentage of people with the condition, the cause may not be readily apparent or characterized.
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury. [1] [2] Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that are associated with specific signs and symptoms.
Medical and health organizations by subject (95 C) D. Drug-induced diseases (1 C, 18 P) I. Idiopathic diseases (27 P) O. Medical conditions related to obesity (2 C, 47 P)
An eating disorder is a serious mental health condition that involves an unhealthy relationship with food and body image. They can cause severe physical and psychological problems. [59] Eating disorders involve disproportionate concern in matters of food and weight. [40]
The lack of known etiology in MUPS cases can lead to conflict between patient and health-care provider over the diagnosis and treatment of MUPS. Most physicians will consider that MUPS most probably have a psychological cause (even if the patient displays no evidence of psychological problems).