| obsessive-compulsive disorder |
(OCD) [DSM-IV] an anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent obsessions or compulsions, which are severe enough to interfere significantly with personal or social functioning. Performing compulsive rituals may release tension temporarily, and resisting them causes increased tension. This disorder is not the same as obsessive-compulsive personality d., which is a personality disorder.
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| observer |
Observer (aka Brain Guy) was a character on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series. He was played by Bill Corbett, and appeared on the eighth through tenth seasons of the series. Observer was a hyperintelligent, psychic alien who carried his brain in a dish rather than in his head. Like his colleagues, Professor Bobo (Kevin Murphy) and Pearl Forrester (Mary Jo Pehl), Brain Guy is deeply dysfunctional. ...
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| obstruction |
Blockage of a passageway.
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| obstetric |
the shortest anteroposterior diameter of the pelvic inlet; the distance from a point 1 cm. below the top of the pubis to the tip of the sacral promontory, measuring 11 to 13 cm. in the normal pelvis. So called because it is intimately concerned in the process of labor. Called also obstetric conjugate and conjugata vera obstetrica.
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| observer |
In meteorology, anyone who takes a weather observation.
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