Category: M

Data or information concerning a patient that may be erroneously assumed to be accurate (e.g., inaccurate laboratory data, unreliable historical data from the patient or the family, and transcription errors in recording data).  

The delusion that a person, an object, or an environment has been duplicated and placed in a new location distant from the location of the original.  

Extreme mental or emotional unhappiness.  

Sexual relations or marriage between those of different races.  

Ambiguous, deceptive, false, incomplete, incorrect, or misleading labeling of a drug or medical device.  

Inaccurately produced speech.  

A neurological disorder described first in Siberia, in which patients have an exaggerated startle response after being stimulated. It has some relationship to the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine and hyperekplexia.  

Writing in which letters and/or words are reversed by the writer — a characteristic of some persons with dyslexia and some who have suffered a left hemispheric stroke. Writing where the words are penned in reverse, resembling their reflection in a mirror.  

A polished surface that reflects light and thus reproduces visible images of objects in front of it.  

A test object on the ophthalmometer, the images of which denote the amount of astigmatism.