Functional disorder

Introduction: Functional disorder

Description of Functional disorder

Functional disorder: Referring to any disorder where impairment occurs but with no evidence of physical disease.

Functional disorder: a disorder characterized by physical symptoms with no known or detectable organic basis.behavior disorder, neurosis SYN: functional disease, functional illness.
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Functional disorder: characterized by physical symptoms and demonstrable structural or physiological changes in which emotional factors are believed to play a major etiologic role.
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Functional disorder: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Functional disorder:

• Functional
• Functional disease
• Disorder
• Physical
• Physical symptoms
• Physical disease
• Physical disorder
• Organic
• Organic disease

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Terms Similar to Functional disorder:

• Briquet's syndrome
• CFS
• Chronic fatigue syndromes
• Conversion disorder
• Psychophysiological disorder
• Psychosomatic disorders
• Somatization disorders
• Somatoform disorder

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