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Wilson's disease | Wilson's disease is a genetic disorder in which copper builds up in the body. Symptoms are typically related to the brain and liver. Liver related symptoms include vomiting, weakness, fluid build up in the abdomen, swelling of the legs, yellowish skin, and itchiness. |
Urinary incontinence | loss of conscious control of urination due to an organic condition, such as a neurological disorder or age-related changes in the bladder or kidneys.
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involuntary urination |
trichotillomania | n. a disorder characterized by the persistent pulling of hair from any part of one’s body on which it grows, often with conspicuous hair loss.
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hair-pulling disorder |
Tourette’s disorder | a tic disorder characterized by many motor tics and one or more vocal tics, such as grunts, yelps, barks, sniffs, or (rarely) coprolalia.
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Gilles de la Tourette’s syndrome |
tic disorder | any one of a group of disorders characterized by the occurrence many times a day of motor tics, vocal tics, or both that is not due to a general medical condition or the effects of a medication. |
substance-induced psychotic disorder | in DSM–IV–TR, prominent hallucinations or delusions due to the direct physiological effects of a substance and not arising as part of a withdrawal syndrome. |
stuttering | n. a disturbance in the normal fluency and time sequencing of speech. It is characterized by frequent repetition or prolongation of sounds, syllables, or words, with hesitations and pauses that disrupt speech.
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childhood-onset fluency disorder, stammering |
speech sound disorder | in DSM–IV–TR, a communication disorder characterized by failure to develop and consistently use speech sounds that are appropriate for the child’s age. |
speech and language disorder | any disorder that affects verbal or written communication.
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specific phobia | an anxiety disorder, formerly called simple phobia, characterized by a marked and persistent fear of a specific object, activity, or situation (e.g., dogs, blood, flying, heights). |
specific learning disorder | see learning disorder. See also disorder of written expression; mathematics disorder; reading disorder. |
somatic symptom disorder | in DSM–5, a disorder characterized by one or more significant bodily symptoms (e.g., pain) that cause distress or impair daily function and by excessive, maladaptive thoughts (preoccupation) or excessive worry about the symptoms, with or without the presence of a medical condition to account for the symptoms. |
social phobia | an anxiety disorder that is characterized by extreme and persistent social anxiety or performance anxiety and that causes significant distress or prevents participation in social activities.
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social anxiety disorder |
social (pragmatic) communication disorder | in DSM–5, a developmental disorder characterized by a child’s difficulties in the social use of language, including impaired ability to use appropriate language in varying situations, to follow conversational rules such as turn taking, and to understand implied or ambiguous meanings, as in metaphors and humor. |
separation anxiety disorder | in DSM–IV–TR, an anxiety disorder occurring in childhood or adolescence that is characterized by developmentally inappropriate, persistent, and excessive anxiety about separation from the home or from major attachment figures. |