Medications

Disorder, specific developmental - Medical

Disorder, specific developmental: A disorder that selectively affects one area of development, sparing essentially all other areas of development. For example, dysgraphia is one type of specific developmental disorder. In dysgraphia there is in...

Disorder, social anxiety - Medical

Disorder, social anxiety: Excessive fear of embarrassment in social situations that is extremely intrusive and can have debilitating effects on personal and professional relationships. Also called social phobia. Phobias are persistent, irrat...

Disorder, seasonal affective (SAD) - Medical

Disorder, seasonal affective (SAD): Depression that tends to occur (and recur) as the days grow shorter in the fall and winter. It is believed that affected persons react adversely to the decreasing amounts of light and the colder temperatures as th...

Disorder, orgasmic - Medical

Disorder, orgasmic: See: Anorgasmia.Last Editorial Review: 11/22/2003 Anorgasmia: Failure to achieve orgasm (climax) during sexual intercourse. Anorgasmia can result from many causes including stress, anxiety, depression, fatigue, worry, guilt, fear...

Disorder, mathematics - Medical

Disorder, mathematics: A condition characterized by math skills that are significantly below normal, given the person's age, intelligence, and education. A mathematics disorder can include problems writing or printing numbers, counting, adding and s...

Disorder, cephalic - Medical

Disorder, cephalic: A congenital condition that stems from damage to, or abnormal development of, the budding nervous system. Cephalic is a term that means "head" or "head end of the body." Congenital means the disorder is present at, and usually bef...

Disorder, central auditory processing - Medical

Disorder, central auditory processing: A condition in which there is an inability to differentiate, recognize or understand sounds while both the hearing and intelligence are normal. (In technical terms, a central auditory processing disorder is a d...

Disorder, borderline personality - Medical

Disorder, borderline personality: A serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior. This instability often disrupts family and work life, long-term planning, and the indiv...

Disorder, bipolar - Medical

Disorder, bipolar: See: Bipolar disorder.Last Editorial Review: 9/16/2003 Bipolar disorder: A mood disorder sometimes called manic-depressive illness or manic-depression that characteristically involves cycles of depression and elation or mania. S...

Disorder, autoimmune - Medical

Disorder, autoimmune: See Autoimmune disease.Last Editorial Review: 12/10/2002 10:48:33 AM...

Disorder, attention deficit (ADD) - Medical

Disorder, attention deficit (ADD): An inability to control behavior due to difficulty in processing neural stimuli. In November, 1998 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a consensus report developed by a panel of experts. The panel co...

Disorder, articulation - Medical

Disorder, articulation: See: Articulation disorder.Last Editorial Review: 6/12/2004 Articulation disorder: The inability to correctly produce speech sounds (phonemes) because of the imprecise placement, timing, pressure, speed, or flow of movement o...

Disorder, anxiety - Medical

Disorder, anxiety: A chronic condition characterized by an excessive and persistent sense of apprehension with physical symptoms such as sweating, palpitations, and feelings of stress. Anxiety disorders have biological and environmental causes. Anxi...

Dislocation, congenital hip - Medical

Dislocation, congenital hip: The abnormal formation of the hip joint in which the ball at the top of the thighbone (the femoral head) is not stable within the socket (the acetabulum). The ligaments of the hip joint may also be loose and stretched. ...

Dislocation of the radial head - Medical

Dislocation of the radial head: See: Nursemaid's elbow. Last Editorial Review: 11/8/2003 Nursemaid's elbow: Partial dislocation of the elbow. The radius (a bone in the forearm) slips out of the ligament that holds it in place at the elbow. This...

Dislocated shoulder - Medical

Dislocated shoulder: The shoulder joint is the most mobile joint in the body and allows the arm to move in many directions. This ability to move makes the joint inherently unstable and also makes the shoulder the most often dislocated joint in ...

Disk, intervertebral - Medical

Disk, intervertebral: See: Intervertebral disk.Last Editorial Review: 8/23/2003 Intervertebral disk: A pad of cartilage between two vertebrae that acts as a shock absorber.Last Editorial Review: 8/23/2003...

Disinsection - Medical

Disinsection: Spraying aircraft for insects, a procedure called disinsection. Some countries in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia and the South Pacific require the spraying of the aircraft passenger compartment with insecticide while ...

DISH - Medical

DISH: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis: Abbreviated as DISH. Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis is a form of degenerative arthritis characteristica...

Diseases, rickettsial - Medical

Diseases, rickettsial: The infectious diseases caused by the rickettsiae fall into 4 groups:(1) typhus: epidemic typhus, Brill-Zinsser disease, murine (endemic) typhus, and scrub typhus; (2) spotted fever-Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Eastern tic...

Diseases, Musculoskeletal, Nat'l Inst - Medical

Diseases, Musculoskeletal and Skin, National Institute of Arthritis and (NIAMS): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. As its somewhat cumbersome name indicates, NIAMS's mission is a broad and important one, namely to "conduct and sup...

Diseases, Infectious, Nat'l Inst of Allergy & - Medical

Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and (NIAID): This is one of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. In formal terms, the mission of the NIAID is "to support and conduct research and research training (that) stri...

Diseases related to obesity - Medical

Diseases related to obesity: Obesity increases the risk of developing a large number of diseases. These include: Type 2 (adult-onset) diabetes High blood pressure (hypertension) Stroke (cerebrovascular accident or CVA) Heart attack...

Disease-free survival - Medical

Disease-free survival: The length of time after treatment during which no disease is found. Can be reported for an individual patient or for a study population. "Disease-free survival predicts survival. It always has. And there is a very big decrea...

Disease, Wilson - Medical

Disease, Wilson: An inherited disorder in which too much copper accumulates in the body. Although the accumulation of copper begins at birth, symptoms of the disorder appear later in life, between the ages of 6 and 40. A diagnostic feature of Wilson...

Disease, Whitmore's - Medical

Disease, Whitmore's: An infectious illness, also called melioidosis, that is most frequent in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia and is caused by a bacteria called "Pseudomonas pseudomallei" found in soil, rice paddies and stagnant waters. Humans...

Disease, Whipple - Medical

Disease, Whipple: See: Whipple disease. Last Editorial Review: 10/18/2003 Whipple disease: A form of intestinal malabsorption (an inability to absorb nutrients from the intestine) described in 1907 by the pathologist and Nobel laureate George H. Wh...

Disease, Werner-His - Medical

Disease, Werner-His: Named for the German physician Heinrich Werner (who did not describe Werner's premature aging syndrome) and the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who did describe the bundle of His in the heart), this is a louse-borne diseas...

Disease, Vrolik's - Medical

Disease, Vrolik's: Osteogenesis imperfecta type II, an inherited connective tissue disorder with very severe bone fragility, the lethal form of "brittle bone disease." It is a recessive trait with males and females affected. Two copies of the mutant...