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Used of mentally ill and neurotic women, particularly single women and spinsters who hoard cats. [23] Cretin [citation needed] Cripple "A person with a physical or mobility impairment". Its shortened form ("crip") has been reclaimed by some people with disabilities as a positive identity. [6] [7] [17] [24] Confined to a wheelchair
Latah is a culture-specific syndrome usually seen in Southeast Asia and involves startle-induced disorganization, hypersuggestibility, automatic obedience, and echopraxia (a tendency to mimic examiner's or other person's actions). It is usually associated with women.
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Supernumerary nipples–uropathies–Becker's nevus syndrome; Supernumerary phantom limb; Survivor syndrome; Susac's syndrome; Sweet's syndrome; Swyer–James syndrome; Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion; Syndrome of subjective doubles; Syndrome Without A Name; HHH syndrome; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome; Sézary ...
A thought disorder (TD) is a disturbance in cognition which affects language, thought and communication. [1] [2] Psychiatric and psychological glossaries in 2015 and 2017 identified thought disorders as encompassing poverty of ideas, paralogia (a reasoning disorder characterized by expression of illogical or delusional thoughts), word salad, and delusions—all disturbances of thought content ...
A mother shares her story about being diagnosed with mosaic Down syndrome. ... muscle, heart or other tissues,” she says. She adds that trisomy 21 is the most common type, and it occurs when one ...
The intense national interest in the case has prompted criticism of news outlets for not covering similar cases involving Black, brown or Indigenous victims.
In 1979, Lenore E. Walker proposed the concept of battered woman syndrome (BWS). [1] She described it as consisting "of the pattern of the signs and symptoms that have been found to occur after a woman has been physically, sexually, and/or psychologically abused in an intimate relationship, when the partner (usually, but not always a man) exerted power and control over the woman to coerce her ...