| BIDS | brittle hair, intellectual impairment, decreased fertility, and short stature [syndrome] |
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| CIS | carcinoma in situ; catheter-induced spasm; central inhibitory state; Chemical Information Service; c... |
| FAI | first aid instruction; free androgen index; functional aerobic impairment; functional assessment inv... |
| MIB | management information base; Medical Impairment Bureau |
| OI | obturator internus; occasional insomnia; opportunistic infection; opsonic index; orgasmic impairment... |
| hysterical joint | A simulation of joint disease, with symptoms of pain, possibly swelling, and impairment of motion. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| hysterical neurosis | <psychiatry> A conversion of emotional stress or mental disturbance into a physical symptom. Examples include paralysis, blindness, inability to speak or another sudden debilitating problem for no reason evident through testing. (27 Sep 1997) |
| hysterical paralysis | A psychosomatic numbness of a limb sometimes to the point of paralysis. See: hysteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical polydipsia | Excessive fluid consumption resulting from a disorder of the personality, without demonstrable organic lesion. Synonym: hysterical polydipsia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical pregnancy | <obstetrics, psychiatry> A condition in which some signs and symptoms suggest pregnancy, although the woman is not pregnant. Synonym: hysterical pregnancy, pseudocyesis, pseudopregnancy, spurious pregnancy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical psychosis | A psychotic disturbance with predominantly hysterical symptoms, a mental disorder resembling conversion hysteria but of psychotic severity, a brief reactive psychosis, often culture bound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical spinal neuralgia | Simulating Pott's disease, following a trauma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical syncope | Fainting due to, or to avoid, emotional stress. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical torticollis | Torticollis believed to be psychosomatic in aetiology. See: hysteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical tremor | Usually a coarse, irregular tremor, limited to one limb. Synonym: psychogenic tremor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical vertigo | A sensation of dizziness, as from a whirling motion, whose aetiology is psychosomatic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| american speech-language-hearing association | A professional society concerned with the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and remediation of speech, language, and hearing disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rehabilitation of hearing impaired | Procedures for assisting a person with a hearing disorder to maximum comprehension in communication. (12 Dec 1998) |
| resonance theory of hearing | That the basilar membrane of the cochlea acts as a resonating structure, recording low tones from its apical turns and high tones from its basal turns. Synonym: Helmholtz theory of hearing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weber's test for hearing | The application of a vibrating tuning fork to one of several points in the midline of the head or face, to ascertain in which ear the sound is heard best by bone conduction, that ear being the affected one if the sound-conducting apparatus (middle ear) is at fault (positive test), but probably the normal one if the neurosensory apparatus is diseased (negative test). (05 Mar 2000) |