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- noun Plural form of
disorder . - verb Third person singular simple present of to
disorder .
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+mental disorders+, and not in another, indicates either that some predisposition to these disorders existed, or that the habit of
Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. Civiale Remedial Agency
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Additionally, expertise in cervical spinal trauma and other spinal disorders is available.
Neurosurgery 2010
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Some of the increase in these disorders is due to better and earlier recognition and diagnosis, but that is an incomplete and understandably insufficient explanation.
Rosalie Greenberg: Psychiatry and the Media -- a Strange and Strained Relationship Rosalie Greenberg 2010
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Some of the increase in these disorders is due to better and earlier recognition and diagnosis, but that is an incomplete and understandably insufficient explanation.
Rosalie Greenberg: Psychiatry and the Media -- a Strange and Strained Relationship Rosalie Greenberg 2010
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In my 25+ years as a therapist I've done a large amount of work with eating disorders, which is to say I've sat and listened to skeletal anorexics argue they were fat and therefore unworthy of love.
Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.: Toddlers & Tiaras: A Cultural Car Wreck Ph.D. Dr. Gregory Jantz 2011
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The liberal approach to dealing with illiteracy, probation, incarceration, assault, addiction, sexually transmitted disease, unintended pregnancy, domestic violence, divorce, and a variety of emotional disorders is based on a set of assumptions about human nature which began to influence the Western world as the philosophy of the Enlightenment was replaced by a new set of ideas about the nature of human existence.
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"There's a great chance the environment is modifying these genes," Burbach said, adding the genes could lead to several brain disorders, depending on things like the child's upbringing and other genetic factors.
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Allergic skin disorders (e.g., eczema or atopic dermatitis, hives or urticaria and angioedema)
Allergy 2010
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The elderly may not manifest "classic" depression as defined in the DSM-III-R19, although they still may manifest some depressive symptoms. 20 Indeed, recent studies show that the prevalence of depressive disorders is no higher in the elderly than in younger populations. 19 However, the incidence of depression and depressive symptoms increases dramatically among elderly with multiple medical problems, precisely those elderly for whom medications will be prescribed. 20
Elderly 2010
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In my 25+ years as a therapist I've done a large amount of work with eating disorders, which is to say I've sat and listened to skeletal anorexics argue they were fat and therefore unworthy of love.
Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.: Toddlers & Tiaras: A Cultural Car Wreck Ph.D. Dr. Gregory Jantz 2011
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