Accounting

Accounting

Includes the principles as well as the system of documenting and summarizing business and financial transactions and analyzing, verifying, and reporting the results.

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coprolalia

Health care; Psychiatry

Coprolalia is the involuntary utterance of socially inappropriate phrases. It is a phonic tic associated with Tourette syndrome, although less than 15% of persons with Tourette's ...

cotard's syndrome

Health care; Psychiatry

Cotard's syndrome is a nihilistic delusional syndrome in which, for example, patient believes that he denies his own existence or existence of his body parts and belongings etc. ...

defenestration

Health care; Psychiatry

Literally jumping out of window. Usually used in context of attempted or completed suicide. Also see autokabalesis.

déjà vu

Health care; Psychiatry

In Déjà vu, a person feels undue familiarity to an event or a person. For example, he feels that the same thing has happened before or he has met this person before, etc.

déjà pensé

Health care; Psychiatry

In Déjà pensé, a completely new thought sounds familiar to the person and he feels as he has thought the same thing before at some time.

dementia praecox

Health care; Psychiatry

Psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was the first to draw a distinction between what he termed dementia praecox ("premature dementia") and other psychotic illnesses. In 1911, dementia ...

dementia pugilistica

Health care; Psychiatry

Dementia pugilistica, also called "chronic traumatic encephalopathy", "pugilistic Parkinson's syndrome", "boxer's syndrome", and "punch-drunk syndrome", is a neurological disorder ...