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  2. Disease - Wikipedia

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    The opposite of progressive disease is stable disease or static disease: a medical condition that exists, but does not get better or worse. Refractory disease A refractory disease is a disease that resists treatment, especially an individual case that resists treatment more than is normal for the specific disease in question.

  3. Stockholm syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition or theory that tries to explain why hostages sometimes develop a psychological bond with their captors. [1] [2] Stockholm syndrome is a "contested illness" due to doubts about the legitimacy of the condition. [3]

  4. Syndrome - Wikipedia

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    A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms which are correlated with each other and often associated with a particular disease or disorder. [1] The word derives from the Greek σύνδρομον, meaning "concurrence". [2]: 1818 When a syndrome is paired with a definite cause this becomes a disease. [3]

  5. Mental disorder - Wikipedia

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    A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, [6] a mental health condition, [7] or a psychiatric disability, [2] is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. [8]

  6. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names) DPT Diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus: DRSP disease Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae disease DS Down syndrome: DSPS Delayed sleep phase syndrome: DTs Delirium tremens: DVD Developmental verbal dyspraxia: DVT Deep vein thrombosis

  7. Pseudobulbar affect - Wikipedia

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    Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), or emotional incontinence, is a type of neurological disorder characterized by uncontrollable episodes of crying or laughing.PBA occurs secondary to a neurologic disorder or brain injury.

  8. Cotard's syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Cotard's syndrome, also known as Cotard's delusion or walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. [1]

  9. Signs and symptoms - Wikipedia

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    Symptomatology (also called semiology) is a branch of medicine dealing with the signs and symptoms of a disease. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ] This study also includes the indications of a disease . [ 57 ] It was first described as semiotics by Henry Stubbe in 1670 a term now used for the study of sign communication .