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| acute insanity caused by alcohol withdrawal marked by sweating, tremor, atonic dyspepsia, restlessness, anxiety, mental confusion, hallucinations |
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| a general mental deterioration |
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| destruction or loss of myelin from the sheath of Schwann cells (PNS) or oligodendroglia (CNS) |
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| a sinking of spirits so as to constitute a clinically discernible condition |
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| the normal power of bringing a limb into the opposite position |
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| disturbance of speech articulation due to emotional stress or to paralysis, uncoordination, or spasticity of the laryngeal muscles used for speaking |
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| abnormal functioning of the autonomic nervous system |
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| a lack of harmonious action between the muscles concerned with executing a particular voluntary movement |
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| impairment of sensation short of anesthesia |
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| difficulty in performing voluntary movements |
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| incomplete alexia, a level of reading far below the individual's level of skill or intelligence |
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| a form of dysergia in which the subject is unable to arrest a muscular movement at a particular point |
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| echophrasia, echo reaction, repetition of speech |
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| a recording of electrical activity of the brain taken from electrodes attached to the scalp |
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| obstruction or occlusion of a blood vessel caused by a clot or foreign substance |
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| convulsive state caused by excessive, uncoordinated neuronal discharge |
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| tremor present at rest that continues during movement, usually limited to the hands and arms |
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| aphasia due to damage in Broca's area, located in the third frontal convolution of the speech-dominant hemisphere |
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| localized brain damage, esp. associated with wounds that penetrate the skull, or with head injuries resulting from automobile accidents |
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| one of two types of seizures (the other being partial) caused by simultaneous activity in several cortical areas, the person loses consciousness and postural tone |
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| the apparent, often strong, subjective perception of an object or event where none exists |
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| loss of vision for one half of the visual field in one or both eyes |
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