| toxic psychosis | A psychosis caused by some toxic substance, whether endogenous or exogenous. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| traumatic psychosis | A psychosis resulting from physical injury or emotional shock. Compare: posttraumatic psychosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| exhaustion psychosis | Rarely used term for a confusional emotional state following an exhausting event. (05 Mar 2000) |
| febrile 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) |
| Korsakoff's 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) |
| functional psychosis | An obsolete term once used to denote schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders before modern science discovered a biological component to some aspects of each of the disorders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adeno-associated virus | <virology> A genus of viruses in the family Parvoviridae which are all defective viruses (unable to replicate by themselves) and depend on the co-infection of their host cell by other, nondefective viruses to help them replicate. (09 Oct 1997) |
| aids-associated nephropathy | Renal syndrome in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients characterised by nephrotic syndrome, severe proteinuria, focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis with distinctive tubular and interstitial changes, enlarged kidneys, and peculiar tubuloreticular structures. The syndrome is distinct from heroin-associated nephropathy as well as other forms of kidney disease seen in HIV-infected patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| antigens, tumour-associated, carbohydrate | Carbohydrate antigens expressed by malignant tissue. They are useful as tumour markers and are measured in the serum by means of a radioimmunoassay employing monoclonal antibodies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| associated | Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. <physiology> Associated movements, consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| associated antagonist | One of two muscles or groups of muscles which pull in nearly opposite directions, but which, when acting together, move the part in a path between their diverging lines of action. (05 Mar 2000) |
| associated macrophage | A mature macrophage in an active metabolic state that is cytotoxic to tumour/target cells, usually following exposure to certain cytokines. (05 Mar 2000) |
| associated movements | Normal involuntary limp movements that accompany voluntary movement, e.g., arm swing with walking. (05 Mar 2000) |
| p60 tumour necrosis factor receptor-associated kinase | <enzyme> Interacts with and causes phosphorylation of the cytoplasmic domain of the tnf receptor Registry number: EC 2.7.10.- Synonym: p60 tnf receptor-associated kinase, p60-trak (26 Jun 1999) |
| GAK, cyclin G-associated kinase | <chemical> Has a ser/thr protein kinase-like catalytic domain at the n-terminal; contains a tensin/auxilin-like domain; genbank d38560 Synonym: gak protein (26 Jun 1999) |