| other-directed | Pertaining to a person readily influenced by the attitudes of others. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| transferases (other substituted phosphate groups) | <enzyme> A class of enzymes that transfers substituted phosphate groups. Registry number: EC 2.7.8 (12 Dec 1998) |
| major mood disorder | See: bipolar disorder, affective psychosis, endogenous depression, dysthymia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mood | Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. "Till at the last aslaked was mood." (Chaucer) "Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything." (Shak) "The desperate recklessness of her mood." (Hawthorne) Origin: OE. Mood, mod, AS. Modmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. Mod, D. Moed, OHG. Muot, G. Muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. Mod, Icel. Mor wrath, Goth. Mods. 1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form). 2. Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc, without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode. Origin: The same word as mode, perh. Influenced by mood temper. See Mode. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mood-congruent hallucination | Hallucination in which the content is mood appropriate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mood disorders | Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mood-incongruent hallucination | Hallucination that is not consistent with external stimuli; content is not consistent with either manic or depressed mood. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mood swing | Oscillation of a person's emotional feeling tone between periods of euphoria and depression. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irritable mood | Abnormal or excessive excitability with easily triggered anger, annoyance, or impatience. (12 Dec 1998) |
| organic mood syndrome | <syndrome> Syndrome attributed to an organic factor characterised by either depressive or manic mood. See: bipolar disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| familial bipolar mood disorder | <psychiatry> Bipolar mood disorder commonly inherited as an autosomal dominant trait and also occasionally as an X-linked one. (05 Mar 2000) |
| persistent | Continuing to exist in spite of interference or treatment, tending to recur. (18 Nov 1997) |
| persistent anterior hyperplastic primary vitreous | A unilateral congenital abnormality occurring in full-term infants; characterised by a retrolental fibrovascular membrane formed by persistent primary vitreous with remnants of the hyaloid artery and tunica vasculosa lentis; associated with leukokoria, microphthalmos, shallow anterior chamber, and elongated ciliary processes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| persistent atrioventricular canal | A condition that is caused when the atrial and ventricular septa fail to meet, as in normal development, resulting in a low atrial and high ventricular septal defect or a common atrioventricular canal. Synonym: endocardial cushion defect. (05 Mar 2000) |
| persistent chronic hepatitis | A benign chronic hepatitis that may follow acute viral hepatitis A or B, or complicate bowel diseases; after six months, liver biopsy changes are mild, unlike active chronic hepatitis; rarely, if ever, progresses to cirrhosis, portal hypertension, or liver failure. (05 Mar 2000) |