Category: P

The rights of physicians to admit patients to certain hospitals.  

In psychology, a general conception of mental disorders that holds that 1. one can generally distinguish between symptoms and underlying causes and 2. these causes may be regarded as a form of pathology.  

A medical specialty concerned with the study of the changes in tissues, organs, and cells as a result of disease or other phenomena. The study of diseases and the changes in structure and function which diseases cause in the body. Study of disease, its causes and effects, especially the observable effects of disease on body…

Retardation that results from specific pathologies such as disease, injury, metabolic errors, chromosomal abnormalities, and the like.  

Prejudice attitudes that are part of a person’s personality structure, authoritarian personality; endemic prejudice.  

Persons who are neither neurotic nor psychotic but who manage to maintain borderline adjustment that might be compared to an abortive stage in the development of a more severe mental disorder.  

Severe cerebral and behavioral disturbance in a person whose tolerance to alcohol is extremely low.  

A fracture in which a specific weakness or destruction of bone caused by some process, such as cancer, is the reason for the break. A fracture of a diseased bone. A fracture of a diseased or weakened bone produced by a force that would not have fractured a healthy bone. The underlying disease may be…

Infrequent, illogical, and antisocial behaviors.  

Anxiety so intense that it produces one or more behavioral disorders, normal anxiety.