| psychoneurosis | 1. A mental or behavioural disorder of mild or moderate severity. 2. Formerly a classification of neurosis that included hysteria, psychasthenia, neurasthenia, and the anxiety and phobic disorders. Origin: psycho-+ G. Neuron, nerve, + -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000) |
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| psychoneurosis maidica | <disease> A niacin deficiency disease (pellagra) caused by improper diet and characterised by skin lesions, gastrointestinal disturbances and nervousness. Depression, dermatitis, dementia and diarrhoea are common symptoms. (27 Sep 1997) |
| psychoneurotic | Pertaining to or suffering from psychoneurosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychonomic | Relating to psychonomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychonomy | A rarely used term referring to the branch of psychology concerned with the laws of behaviour. Origin: psycho-+ G. Nomos, law (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychonosology | The classification of mental illnesses and behavioural disorders. Synonym: psychiatric nosology. Origin: psycho-+ G. Nosos, disease, + logos, study (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychonoxious | Rarely used term for:1. Having an unfavorable effect on the emotional life and reactions mediated by higher levels of the central nervous system; may be endogenous or exogenous. 2. Denoting persons or situations that elicit fear, pain, anxiety, or anger in an individual. Origin: psycho-+ L. Noxius, harmful (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychopannychism | The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body. Psychopannychism. Origin: Psycho- + Gr. To spend all night long, all + night. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| psychopath | Former designation for an individual with an antisocial type of personality disorder. See: antisocial personality, sociopath. Origin: psycho-+ G. Pathos, disease (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychopathic | Relating to or characteristic of psychopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychopathic personality | A personality disorder characterised by a continuous and persistent pattern of aggressive behaviour in which the rights of others are violated. See: psychopath, sociopath. Synonym: psychopathic personality. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychopathist | An obsolete term for psychiatrist. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychopathologist | One who specialises in psychopathology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychopathology | The study of significant causes and processes in the development of mental illness. (12 Dec 1998) |
| psychopathy | <medicine> Mental disease. See: Psychosis. Psychopathic, Psychopathist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |