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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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Bennett had previously been diagnosed with Fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder that can cause anxiety, mood instability and depression, it was also told.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Nunez on Thursday warned of a "very high risk of public disorder", saying demonstrations would be allowed, but not in city centres.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Lewy body dementia symptoms tend to start with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, such as screaming or kicking during sleep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder that can affect how people experience the world, interact with their surroundings, and communicate with others.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

He was, after all, a doctor, and he suspected that the teacher was trying to tell them that he had failed to diagnose attention deficit disorder in his own son.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

As I type, two studies and a clinical trial are ongoing to affirm how Shingrix may impact dementia, cardiovascular disorders, and major adverse cardiac events.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

The findings build on more than a decade of research into rare inherited disorders that disrupt the body's ability to control inflammation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

She worries many of them will develop post-traumatic stress disorders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

These disorders, known as tauopathies, involve the buildup of abnormal tangles of a protein called tau inside the brain.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

This specialist now has a large number of detailed case histories based on every patient he has seen with leukemias, aplastic anemias, Hodgkin’s disease, and other disorders of the blood and blood-forming tissues.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Rather than simply becoming disordered, the particles rearrange themselves into an unusual configuration that behaves differently from the quantum systems scientists have traditionally studied.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Bossy’s direction raises the clamorous volume instead of sorting out the disordered structure or digging into the unexamined silences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Rather than understanding dissociation as a symptom of disordered eating, researchers increasingly consider how it may both emerge from and help maintain these patterns.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert and author of the book How to Sleep Well, argues that gamifying sleep is creating more disordered sleeping.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

It overtakes you literally by degrees as your body temperature falls and your natural responses grow sluggish and disordered.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

The researchers then expose the cilia to a damped, alternating magnetic field which has the effect of disordering the magnetization of the microparticles.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

The economic and social troubles of 1993 rippled through my community, as these things do, disordering the trajectories of lives and industries to the ruin of some.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021

Could this disordering of locality serve to explain the quantum nonlocality inherent in entangled particles?

From Scientific American ● Apr. 4, 2019

Furthermore, disordering the ligand distribution drastically increases adhesion growth, but reduces the rigidity threshold for adhesion collapse.

From Nature ● Dec. 5, 2017

But the vapour of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapour at last that I saw two men looking at me.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens


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