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psychosis
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Psychosis
A term applied generally to any kind of mental disorder.
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Psychosis
Psychosis: In the general sense, a mental illness that markedly interferes with a person's capacity to meet life's everyday demands. In a specific sense, it refers to a thought disorder in which reality testing is grossly impaired. Symptoms can include seeing, hearing, smelling, or tasting things th... Found op http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.html?articlekey=5110
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Psychosis
Psy·cho'sis noun [ New Latin See Psycho- .] 1. Any vital action or activity. Mivart. 2. (Medicine) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic chang... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/188
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psychosis
<psychiatry> A mental disorder characterised by gross impairment in reality testing as evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, markedly incoherent speech or disorganised and agitated behaviour without apparent awareness on the part of the patient of the incomprehensibility of his behaviour, th... Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?psychosis
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psychosis
noun any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=psychosis
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psychosis
(si-ko´sis) pl. psycho´ses a state in which a person's mental capacity to recognize reality, communicate, and relate to others is impaired, thus interfering with the capacity to deal with life demands. Mental disorders in which psychotic symptoms may be present include mood disorders, schizophreni... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001
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Psychosis
• (n.) Any vital action or activity. • (n.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes. Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/psychosis/
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psychosis
any of several major mental illnesses that can cause delusions, hallucinations, serious defects in judgment and insight, defects in the thinking ... [9 related articles] Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/128
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psychosis
(psych- + -osis) a mental disorder characterized by gross impairment in reality testing as evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, markedly incoherent speech, or disorganized and agitated behaviour without apparent awareness on the part of the patient of the incomprehensibility of his behaviour; the... Found op http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/DIC/dictio73.html
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psychosis
psychosis (singular), psychoses (plural) 1. A mental and behavioral disorder causing gross distortion or the disorganization of a person's mental capacity, affective response, and capacity to recognize reality, communicate, and relate to others to the degree of interfering with the person's capaci... Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2730/14
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Psychosis
Psychosis (from the Ancient Greek ψυχή "psyche", for mind/soul, and -ωσις "-osis", for abnormal condition) means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality". People suffering from psychosi... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis
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psychosis
psychosis (sīkō'sis) , in psychiatry, a broad category of mental disorder encompassing the most serious emotional disturbances, often rendering the individual incapable of staying in contact with reality. Until recently, the term was used in contrast with neurosis, which denoted the ... Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0840396.html
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Psychosis
(Gr. psychosis, a giving of life or soul) (a) In the general sense, psychosis designates any mental or psychical process, just as a neurosis, in the wide sense is any neural process. (b) In the restricted sense, psychosis designates a pathological condition of mind, just as 'neurosis' is an abnormal... Found op http://www.ditext.com/runes/p.html
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