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May be offensive to some, [1] [17] [22] who may prefer "person with a disability" or "people with health conditions or impairments". [7] However, many people prefer "disabled person" or "disabled people", in part due to the social model of disability. [27] [28] [29] Disorder [30] Dotard [31] Downie: Used of people with Down Syndrome.
Although most patients have been observed to come from homes with poor conditions, and many had been faced with poverty for a long period of time, these similarities are not considered a definite cause to the syndrome. Research showed that some of the participants with the condition had solid family backgrounds as well as successful ...
Anomic aphasia, also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia, is a mild, fluent type of aphasia where individuals have word retrieval failures and cannot express the words they want to say (particularly nouns and verbs). [1]
used car or bicycle in very poor condition (UK: banger) (slang) wifebeater (q.v.) a sleeveless undershirt (from the stereotype that poor men who wear them beat their wives, perhaps from Jackie Gleason in "The Honeymooners" TV series (50s/60s US) or more likely from the costume of the character Stanley Kowalski in the play " A Streetcar Named ...
This usage appears in statements that describe a patient as being in critical condition, for example. Morbidity Morbidity (from Latin morbidus 'sick, unhealthy') is a diseased state, disability, or poor health due to any cause. [17]
Some people may be anosmic for one particular odor, a condition known as "specific anosmia". The absence of the sense of smell from birth is known as congenital anosmia. [15] In the United States, 3% of people aged over 40 are affected by anosmia. [3] Anosmia is a common symptom of COVID-19 and can persist as long COVID. [16]
This condition occurs in Ganser syndrome and has been observed in prisoners awaiting trial. Vorbeigehen ( German: [foːɐ̯ˈbaɪ̯ˌɡeːən] ⓘ , giving approximate answers ) was the original term used by Ganser but Vorbeireden (talking past the point) is the term generally in use (Goldin 1955).
The cause of immunodeficiency varies depending on the nature of the disorder. The cause can be either genetic or acquired by malnutrition and poor sanitary conditions. [15] [16] Only for some genetic causes, the exact genes are known. [17]