| CU | cardiac unit; casein unit; cause unknown or undetermined; chymotrypsin unit; clinical unit; color un... |
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| IC | icteric, icterus; immune complex; immunoconjugate; immunocytochemistry; immunocytotoxicity; impedanc... |
| IOU | intensive care observation unit; international opacity unit |
| ACU | acquired cold urticaria; acute care unit; agar colony-forming unit; ambulatory care unit |
| HU | heat unit; hemagglutinating unit; hemolytic unit; Hounsfield unit; human urine, human urinary; hydro... |
| schizo-affective psychosis | Psychotic disturbance in which there is a mixture of schizophrenic and manic-depressive symptoms. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pseudo psychosis | A condition resembling psychosis; may be a factitious or malingering disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychosis | <psychiatry> A mental disorder characterised by gross impairment in reality testing as evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, markedly incoherent speech or disorganised and agitated behaviour without apparent awareness on the part of the patient of the incomprehensibility of his behaviour, the term is also used in a more general sense to refer to mental disorders in which mental functioning is sufficiently impaired as to interfere grossly with the patients capacity to meet the ordinary demands of life. Historically, the term has been applied to many conditions, for example manic depressive psychosis, that were first described in psychotic patients, although many patients with the disorder are not judged psychotic. (06 Oct 1997) |
| 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) |
| puerperal psychosis | <obstetrics, psychiatry> An acute mental disorder with depression in the mother following childbirth. Synonym: puerperal psychosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| senile psychosis | Mental disturbance occurring in old age and related to degenerative cerebral processes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| situational psychosis | A transitory but severe emotional disorder caused in a predisposed person by a seemingly unbearable situation. (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) |
| depressive psychosis | A major disorder of mood in which biologic factors are believed to play a prominent role. See: depression. (05 Mar 2000) |
| drug psychosis | Psychosis following or precipitated by ingestion of a drug, e.g., LSD. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ICU psychosis | Psychotic episode(s), classically occurring in coronary care patients, occurring within 24 hours after entering the ICU in individuals with no previous history of psychosis; related to sleep deprivation, overstimulation in the ICU, and time spent on life support systems, and should be distinguished from exacerbation of a pre-existing psychosis or an organic psychosis such as delirium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dysmnesic psychosis | <syndrome> May occur as a sequel to chronic alcohol abuse. Features include personality changes, confabulation, psychosis, disorientation, polyneuritis, insomnia and hallucinations. (27 Sep 1997) |
| infection-exhaustion psychosis | A psychosis following an acute infection, shock, or chronic intoxication; begins as delirium followed by pronounced mental confusion with hallucinations and unsystematised delusions, and sometimes stupor. Synonym: febrile psychosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| involutional psychosis | An obsolete term for mental disturbance occurring during the menopause or later life. (05 Mar 2000) |
| toxic psychosis | A psychosis caused by some toxic substance, whether endogenous or exogenous. (05 Mar 2000) |