| decompression, explosive | A sudden loss of pressure in a pressurised cabin, cockpit, or the like, so rapid as to be explosive. (12 Dec 1998) |
|---|---|
| intermittent explosive disorder | <psychology> An uncommon disorder that begins in early childhood, characterised by repeated acts of violent, aggressive behaviour in otherwise normal persons that is markedly out of proportion to the event that provokes it. Synonym: dyscontrol, episodic dyscontrol syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated explosive disorder | A disorder of impulse control characterised by a single episode of failure to resist a violent, externally directed act which had serious impact on others. (05 Mar 2000) |
| explosive | 1. An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine. 2. A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| explosive decompression | Sudden severe expansion of gases due to a reduction in ambient pressure. Synonym: explosive decompression. (05 Mar 2000) |
| explosive speech | Loud, sudden speech related to injury of the nervous system. Synonym: logospasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute epidemic conjunctivitis | An obsolete term for an acute conjunctivitis marked by intense hyperaemia and profuse mucopurulent discharge. Synonym: acute epidemic conjunctivitis, pinkeye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute epidemic leukoencephalitis | A disease characterised by acute onset of fever, followed by convulsions, delirium, and coma, and associated with perivascular demyelination and haemorrhagic foci in the central nervous system. Synonym: acute primary haemorrhagic meningoencephalitis, Strumpell's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behavioural epidemic | An epidemic originating in behavioural patterns (in contrast to invading microorganisms); examples include medieval dancing mania, episodes of crowd panic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| person to person epidemic | An epidemic resulting from person to person contact, characterised by a gradual rise and fall in number of cases. (09 Oct 1997) |
| common-source epidemic | <microbiology> An epidemic resulting from infection of a large number of people from a single contaminated source. (09 Oct 1997) |
| pleurodynia, epidemic | An acute, febrile, infectious disease generally occurring in epidemics, most often seen in persons under the age of 20. It is usually caused by coxsackie viruses b and sometimes by coxsackie viruses a, echoviruses, and other enteroviruses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| point epidemic | An epidemic where a pronounced clustering of cases of disease occurs within a very short period of time (within a few days or even hours) due to exposure of persons or animals to a common source of infection such as food or water. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porcine epidemic diarrhoea | A disease of pigs caused by the porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus and characterised by acute diarrhoea, with high mortality in piglets. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus | A coronavirus causing porcine epidemic diarrhoea in pigs. (05 Mar 2000) |