| SADS | Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia |
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| SADS-C | Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Change |
| SADS-L | Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Lifetime |
| schiz | schizophrenia |
| SFH | schizophrenia family history; serum-free hemoglobin; stroma-free hemoglobin |
| psychosis, schizophrenia | The most chronic and disabling of the major mental illnesses. Schizophrenia may be one disorder, or it may be many disorders, with different causes. Because of the disorder's complexity, few generalisations hold true for all people who are diagnosed as schizophrenic. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| simple schizophrenia | Schizophrenia characterised by withdrawal, apathy, indifference, and impoverishment of human relationships without overt psychotic features. (05 Mar 2000) |
| disorganised schizophrenia | A severe form of schizophrenia characterised by the predominance of incoherence, blunted, inappropriate or silly affect, and the absence of systematised delusions. Synonym: hebephrenic schizophrenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| latent schizophrenia | A preexisting susceptibility for developing overt schizophrenia under strong emotional stress. (05 Mar 2000) |
| residual | Remaining or left behind. Origin: L. Residuus (18 Nov 1997) |
| residual abscess | An abscess recurring at the site of a former abscess resulting from persistence of microbes and pus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| residual affinity | Secondary forces that enable apparently saturated atoms, ions, or molecules to attract other atoms or groups, causing such phenomena as complex formation, hydration, adsorption, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| residual air | The volume of air remaining in the lungs at the end of a maximal expiration. Common abbreviation is rv. (12 Dec 1998) |
| residual body | 1. <cell biology> Secondary lysosomes containing material that cannot be digested. 2. <biology> The surplus cytoplasm shed by spermatids during their differentiation to spermatozoa. Usually the cytoplasm from several spermatids connected by cytoplasmic bridges. 3. <microbiology> Surplus cytoplasm containing pigment and left over after production of merozoites during schizogony of malaria parasites. (18 Nov 1997) |
| residual body of Regaud | The excess cytoplasm that separates from the spermatozoon during spermiogenesis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| residual capacity | The volume of air remaining in the lungs at the end of a maximal expiration. Common abbreviation is rv. (12 Dec 1998) |
| residual cleft | The remnants of the pituitary diverticulum that occur between the pars distalis and pars intermedia; a distinct lumen is present in some animals, but, in humans, is present only during prenatal development and sometimes in young children. Synonym: residual lumen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| residual cyst | The persistence of an apical periodontal cyst that remains after tooth extraction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| residual error | The estimated discrepancy between the actual measured datum and the value for that value computed after a model has been fitted to the set of the data by an estimator. (05 Mar 2000) |
| residual inhibition | The inhibition or suppression of tinnitus by use of a sound-generating device (residual inhibitor) which masks the sounds of tinnitus and produces a residual sound-inhibiting effect when the device is turned off. (05 Mar 2000) |