Psychiatry
Categorical breakdown of terms falling inder the category of Psychiatry. Sub categories will become more specific in nature to the terms listed for Psychiatry.
Sub-Categories
Terms
Adolescent Psychiatry - The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disor...
Biological Psychiatry - An interdisciplinary science concerned with studies of the biological bases of behavior - biochemica...
Child Psychiatry - The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disor...
Commitment of Mentally Ill - Legal process required for the institutionalization of a patient with severe mental problems....
Community Psychiatry - Branch of psychiatry concerned with the provision and delivery of a coordinated program of mental he...
Confidentiality - The privacy of information and its protection against unauthorized disclosure....
Duty to Warn - A health professional's obligation to breach patient CONFIDENTIALITY to warn third parties of the da...
Forensic Psychiatry - Psychiatry in its legal aspects. This includes criminology, penology, commitment of mentally ill, th...
Geriatric Psychiatry - A subspecialty of psychiatry concerned with the mental health of the aged....
Insanity Defense - A legal concept that an accused is not criminally responsible if, at the time of committing the act,...
Military Psychiatry - Branch of psychiatry concerned with problems related to the prevention, diagnosis, etiology, and tre...
Orthopsychiatry - The study and treatment of human behavior problems utilizing principles derived from the behavioral,...
Preventive Psychiatry - A discipline concerned with the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of mental health....
Psychiatry - The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disor...
Psychoanalysis - The separation or resolution of the psyche into its constituent elements. The term has two separate ...
Psychosomatic Medicine - A system of medicine which aims at discovering the exact nature of the relationship between the emot...
Common Chronic Illnesses
Coronary Disease
An imbalance between myocardial functional requirements and the capacity of the CORONARY VESSELS to supply sufficient blood flow. It is a form of MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA (insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle) caused by a decreased capacity of the coronary vessels.
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
A subtype of DIABETES MELLITUS that is characterized by INSULIN deficiency. It is manifested by the sudden onset of severe HYPERGLYCEMIA, rapid progression to DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS, and DEATH unless treated with insulin. The disease may occur at any age, but is most common in childhood or adolescence.
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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
A subclass of DIABETES MELLITUS that is not INSULIN-responsive or dependent (NIDDM). It is characterized initially by INSULIN RESISTANCE and HYPERINSULINEMIA; and eventually by GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; and overt diabetes. Type II diabetes mellitus is no longer considered a disease exclusively found in adults. Patients seldom develop KETOSIS but often exhibit OBESITY.
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Hypertension
Persistently high systemic arterial BLOOD PRESSURE. Based on multiple readings (BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION), hypertension is currently defined as when SYSTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently greater than 140 mm Hg or when DIASTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently 90 mm Hg or more.
Mesothelioma
A tumor derived from mesothelial tissue (peritoneum, pleura, pericardium). It appears as broad sheets of cells, with some regions containing spindle-shaped, sarcoma-like cells and other regions showing adenomatous patterns. Pleural mesotheliomas have been linked to exposure to asbestos. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Osteoarthritis
A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.
