Category: O
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Organicity
Impairment of the central nervous system.
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Organic hypertension
Hypertension that develops as a result of a specific physical cause, hypertension.
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Organic heart disease
The presence of symptoms of disease of the heart due to changes or breakdown of cardiac tissues, functional heart disease.
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Organic evolution
The theory that existing living forms have been derived by gradual modification from earlier and simpler forms.
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Organic compound
A carbon-containing compound. There are four classes of major nutrients: (a) carbohydrates, (b) proteins, (c) lipids, and (d) vitamins. A compound containing carbon. Such compounds include carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.
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Organic chemical
A substance, such as an acid, alkali, salt, or synthetic compound obtained by a chemical process, prepared for use in chemical manufacture, or used for producing a chemical effect, inorganic chemical.
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Organic brain syndrome
A disorder characterized by mental confusion, disorientation, and decreased intellectual function. Possibly caused by the prolonged use of psychoactive drugs. Any of a large group of acute and chronic mental disorders associated with brain damage or impaired cerebral function. A cognitive, intellectual, or mental dysfunction that stems from physical, rather than psychiatric, origins is known…
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Organ donor
A person who donates one or more of his or her organs to another person whose organ is diseased, injured, or lacking.
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Ordinal variable
In epidemiology, a variable having values that can be meaningfully ordered or ranked.
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Ordinal scale
A scale in which responses are ranked ordered by relative magnitude but in which the intervals between successive ranks are not necessarily equal, categorical scale; interval scale; ratio scale.