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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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