functional illness

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• Functional medicine — is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes, instead of symptoms, for serious chronic disease. [Jones DS, ed. Textbook of Functional Medicine. Gig Harbor, WA: The Institute for Functional Medicine; 2005. ISBN …   Wikipedia

• functional — adjective 1》 relating to or having a function: a functional role.     ↘relating to the way in which something functions: there are functional differences between the left and right brain. 2》 designed to be practical and useful, rather than… …   English new terms dictionary

• illness — SYN: disease (1). environmental i. SYN: multiple chemical sensitivity. factitious i. by proxy SYN: Munchausen syndrome by proxy. functional i. SYN: functional disorder. manic depressive i. an older term for manic depressive disorder, which is now …   Medical dictionary

• illness — Synonyms and related words: abnormality, acute disease, addiction, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, bug, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• MENTAL ILLNESS — Man has been subject to mental illness from the earliest known times. The Bible makes frequent reference   to it among Jews, and describes recognizable types of mental disturbances. The reference in Leviticus 20:27, A man also or a woman that… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• mental illness — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brain disease, brainsickness, clouded mind, crack up, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, emotional disorder,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Hysteria —    In 1802, Paris psychiatrist Jean Baptiste Louyer Villermay (1775–1837), in an essay differentiating hypochondria from hysteria, described a young female patient, uncertain about romance, who, at the sight of her loved one fainted, uttering… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

• Hysteria-Psychosomatic-Somatization —    In 1802, Paris psychiatrist Jean Baptiste Louyer Villermay (1775–1837), in an essay differentiating hypochondria from hysteria, described a young female patient, uncertain about romance, who, at the sight of her loved one fainted, uttering… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

• disorder — A disturbance of function, structure, or both, resulting from a genetic or embryonic failure in development or from exogenous factors such as poison, trauma, or disease. adjustmen …   Medical dictionary

• Disease — Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the… …   Medical dictionary

• Schizophrenia — MeshName = Schizophrenia MeshNumber = F03.700.750 Schizophrenia (pron en|ˌskɪtsəˈfriːniə), from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν, to split ) and phrēn , phren (φρήν, φρεν , mind ) is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder… …   Wikipedia