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Functional disorder   /fˈəŋkʃənəl dɪsˈɔrdər/   Listen
Functional disorder

noun
1.
Disorder showing symptoms for which no physiological or anatomical cause can be identified.  Antonym: organic disorder.






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... This is a functional disorder of the sweat-glands characterized by a secretion variously colored, and usually increased in quantity. It is, as a rule, limited to a circumscribed area. The most common color is red. The condition is probably of neurotic origin and tends to recur. (True chromidrosis is extremely rare; most ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

... DEFINITION.—A functional disorder of the nervous system of which it is impossible to speak definitely; characterized by disturbance of the reason, will, imagination, and emotions, with sometimes convulsive ...
— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

... to flow suet or fatty fluids. Seborrhoea is a functional disorder of the sebaceous gland (fatty, suet matter) and this secretion ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... readily understood from this brief statement of the nature of the liver functions, that any functional disorder of the liver may be far reaching in its effect. In many of the diseases that involve other organs, the liver may be primarily affected. It is difficult to diagnose functional disorders of the liver that are responsible for a diseased condition of some other body organ. A knowledge ...
— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.



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