| DSM-IV | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [of APA], fourth edition |
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| GDS | geriatric depression scale; Global Deterioration Scale; Gordon Diagnostic System [for attention diso... |
| HRPD | Hamburg Rating Scale for Psychiatric Disorders |
| ISMED | International Society on Metabolic Eye Disorders ISMH International Society of Medical Hydrology |
| NINCDS | National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke |
| gonadal disorders | Disease of the ovaries and testes of any aetiology. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| perceptual disorders | Disturbances in recognizing and interpreting sensory stimuli dependent upon one's previous experience. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mental disorders | Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behaviour producing either distress or impairment of function. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mental disorders diagnosed in childhood | Those psychiatric disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence. These disorders can also be first diagnosed during other life stages. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child behaviour disorders | Disturbances considered to be pathological based on age and stage appropriateness, e.g., conduct disturbances and anaclitic depression. This concept does not include psychoneuroses, psychoses, or personality disorders with fixed patterns. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child development disorders, pervasive | Severe distortions in the development of many basic psychological functions that are not normal for any stage in development. These distortions are manifested in sustained social impairment, speech abnormalities, and peculiar motor movements. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child nutrition disorders | Malnutrition, occurring in children ages 2 to 12 years, which is due to insufficient intake of food, dietary nutrients, or a pathophysiologic condition which prevents the absorption and utilization of food. Growth and development are markedly affected. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child reactive disorders | Reactions to an event or set of events which are considered to be of pathological degree, that have not developed into a neurosis, psychosis, or personality disorder with fixed patterns. (12 Dec 1998) |
| peroxisomal disorders | A heterogeneous group of inherited metabolic disorders in which peroxisomes are either defective or totally lacking and/or there is a dysfunction of single or multiple peroxisomal enzymes. Patients show metabolic defects in all the major biosynthetic peroxisomal pathways, especially failure to synthesise ether lipids, or to oxidise long-chain fatty acids, and accumulate bile acid precursors. The disorders include zellweger syndrome, infantile refsum disease, rhizomelic chondrodysplasia (chondrodysplasia punctata, rhizomelic), and hyperpipecolic acidemia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personality disorders | A major deviation from normal patterns of behaviour. (12 Dec 1998) |
| growth disorders | Deviations from the average values for a specific age and sex in any or all of the following: height, weight, skeletal proportions, osseous development, or maturation of features. The concept includes both acceleration and retardation of growth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| phagocytic dysfunction disorders immunodeficiency | Suppression in number or function of phagocytic cells such as in chronic granulomatous disease. Synonym: phagocytic dysfunction disorders immunodeficiency. Origin: L. Phagedaena, Gr Phago, To eat. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ciliary motility disorders | Disorders characterised by abnormal ciliary movement in the nose, paranasal sinuses, respiratory tract, and spermatozoa. Electron microscopy of the cilia shows that dynein arms are missing. The disorders manifest as kartagener triad (kartagener's syndrome), chronic respiratory disorders, chronic sinusitis, and/or chronic otitis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| phobic disorders | Anxiety disorders in which the essential feature is persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that the individual feels compelled to avoid. The individual recognises the fear as excessive or unreasonable. (12 Dec 1998) |
| civil disorders | Deliberate and planned acts of unlawful behaviour engaged in by aggrieved segments of the population in seeking social change. (12 Dec 1998) |