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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 2

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    It was the title of a marching song sung by women during WWII. The chorus goes "If you're nervous in the service, And you don't know what to do / Have a baby, get out of the Navy." Later, it was generalized to just meaning "nervous", so that the word "service" is now just a bit of rhyming nonsense, like the "Ruth" in "that's the truth, Ruth".

  3. Neurasthenia - Wikipedia

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    The condition was explained as being a result of exhaustion of the central nervous system's energy reserves, which Beard attributed to modern civilization. Physicians in the Beard school of thought associated neurasthenia with the stresses of urbanization and with stress suffered as a result of the increasingly competitive business environment.

  4. Glossary of psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    The word is derived from the Latin word verbum (also the source of verbiage), plus the verb gerĕre, to carry on or conduct, from which the Latin verb verbigerāre, to talk or chat, is derived. However, clinically the term verbigeration never achieved popularity and as such has virtually disappeared from psychiatric terminology.

  5. Neuroscientist - Wikipedia

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    Hieroglyphic stating the word, "brain", dated to 1700 BC. This work is considered a copy of an original writing as old as 3000 BC. Some of the first writings about the brain come from the Egyptians. In about 3000 BC the first known written description of the brain also indicated that the location of brain injuries may be related to specific ...

  6. Neurology - Wikipedia

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    Neurology (from Greek: νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the spinal cord and the peripheral nerves. [1]

  7. Workaholic - Wikipedia

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    There is no generally accepted medical definition of this condition, although some forms of stress, impulse control disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder can be work-related; ergomania is defined as "excessive devotion to work especially as a symptom of mental illness".

  8. Nervous - Wikipedia

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    Nervous system, a network of cells in an animal's body that coordinates movement and the senses Nervous tissue , the cells of the nervous system that work in aggregate to transmit signals Music

  9. Pavlov's typology - Wikipedia

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    Pavlov's typology of higher nervous activity was the first systematic approach to the psychophysiology of individual differences. Ivan Pavlov's ideas of nervous system typology came from work with his dogs and his realization of individual differences. His observations of the dogs led to the idea of excitation and inhibition in the nervous ...