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Psychiatry
The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders
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verstimmung
Health care; Psychiatry
It refers to an ill humoured mood state often accompanied by low mood and depressive symptoms. The people surrounding the patient often feel upset by this.
vorbeigehen
Health care; Psychiatry
In vorbeigehen or vorbeireden, a patient will answer a question in such a way that one can tell the patient understood the question, although the answer itself may be very obviously wrong. For ...
vorbeireden
Health care; Psychiatry
In vorbeigehen or vorbeireden, a patient will answer a question in such a way that one can tell the patient understood the question, although the answer itself may be very obviously wrong. For ...
wahneinfall
Health care; Psychiatry
Wahneinfall is alternate term for autochthonous delusions. This is one of the types of primary delusions in which a firm belief comes into the patient's mind 'out of the blue' or as an intution , ...
waxy flexibility
Health care; Psychiatry
Waxy flexibility, aka Cerea flexibilitas, meaning is characterized by a patient's movements having the feeling of a plastic resistance, as if the person were made of wax. This occurs in catatonic ...
word-salad
Health care; Psychiatry
Derived from the the German word Wortsalat, it is characterized by confused, and often repetitious, language with no apparent meaning or relationship attached to them. It is often symptomatic of ...
wurgstimme
Health care; Psychiatry
Wurgstimme refers to speaking in an odd muffled or strangled voice. It is mainly seen in schizophrenia.
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