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 individual s sense of self identity … Medical dictionary
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 subtracting,… … Medical dictionary
disorder — A disturbance of function, structure, or both, resulting from a genetic or embryonic failure in development or from exogenous factors such as poison, trauma, or disease. adjustmen … Medical dictionary
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 disease of the auditory pathways from … Medical dictionary
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 inability to write legibly. Problems… … Medical dictionary
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 before, birth.… … Medical dictionary
disorder of written expression — [DSM IV] a learning disorder (q.v.) in which the affected skill is written communication, characterized by errors in spelling, grammar, or punctuation, by poor paragraph organization, or by poor story composition or thematic development … Medical dictionary
disorder — ► NOUN 1) a lack of order; confusion. 2) the disruption of peaceful and law abiding behaviour. 3) Medicine a disruption of normal physical or mental functions. ► VERB ▪ bring disorder to … English terms dictionary
Disorder, articulation — The inability to correctly produce speech sounds (phonemes) because of the imprecise placement, timing, pressure, speed, or flow of movement of the lips, tongue, or throat … Medical dictionary
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 concluded that: Ritalin and other… … Medical dictionary
