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Distractibility
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Distractibility The inability to maintain attention, that is, the shifting from one area or topic to another with minimal provocation, or attention being drawn too frequently to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli.
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Attention
The ability to focus in a sustained manner on a particular stimulus or activity. A disturbance in attention may be manifested by easy distractibility or difficulty in finishing tasks or in concentrating on work.
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Distal
A location farther from a point of reference. For example, the foot is distal to the knee, relative to the center of the body.
Distance healing
Healing in which people seek to help patients simply with the power of the mind. Distance healing can include anything from therapeutic touch -- in which practitioners, without touching their patients, try to alter their energy fields -- to praying for people who are ill. Distance healing is part of the practice of alternative medicine.
Distention
Bloating or swelling of the abdomen.
Distichiasis
Double rows of eyelashes. The extra eyelashes grow from glands called the Meibomian glands and may protrude into the cornea, producing severe corneal abrasions.
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Disinhibition
Freedom to act according to one's inner drives or feelings, with less regard for restraints imposed by cultural norms or one's superego; removal of an inhibitory, constraining, or limiting influence, as in the escape from higher cortical control in neurologic injury, or in uncontrolled firing of impulses, as when a drug interferes with the usual limiting or inhibiting action of GABA within the central nervous system.
Disorientation
Confusion about the time of day, date, or season (time), where one is (place), or who one is (person).
Dysphoric mood
An unpleasant mood, such as sadness, anxiety, or irritability.
Displacement
A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which emotions, ideas, or wishes are transferred from their original object to a more acceptable substitute; often used to allay anxiety.
Dissociation
disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment. The disturbance may be sudden or gradual, transient or chronic.
Distractibility
Double bind
Interaction in which one person demands a response to a message containing mutually contradictory signals, while the other person is unable either to comment on the incongruity or to escape from the situation.
Drive
Basic urge, instinct, motivation; a term used to avoid confusion with the more purely biological concept of instinct.
Dyad
A two-person relationship, such as the therapeutic relationship between doctor and patient in individual psychotherapy.
Dysarthria
Imperfect articulation of speech due to disturbances of muscular control or incoordination.
Dysgeusia
Perversion of the sense of taste.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Attention
The ability to focus in a sustained manner on a particular stimulus or activity. A disturbance in attention may be manifested by easy distractibility or difficulty in finishing tasks or in concentrating on work.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Distal
A location farther from a point of reference. For example, the foot is distal to the knee, relative to the center of the body.
Distance healing
Healing in which people seek to help patients simply with the power of the mind. Distance healing can include anything from therapeutic touch -- in which practitioners, without touching their patients, try to alter their energy fields -- to praying for people who are ill. Distance healing is part of the practice of alternative medicine.
Distention
Bloating or swelling of the abdomen.
Distichiasis
Double rows of eyelashes. The extra eyelashes grow from glands called the Meibomian glands and may protrude into the cornea, producing severe corneal abrasions.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Disinhibition
Freedom to act according to one's inner drives or feelings, with less regard for restraints imposed by cultural norms or one's superego; removal of an inhibitory, constraining, or limiting influence, as in the escape from higher cortical control in neurologic injury, or in uncontrolled firing of impulses, as when a drug interferes with the usual limiting or inhibiting action of GABA within the central nervous system.
Disorientation
Confusion about the time of day, date, or season (time), where one is (place), or who one is (person).
Dysphoric mood
An unpleasant mood, such as sadness, anxiety, or irritability.
Displacement
A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which emotions, ideas, or wishes are transferred from their original object to a more acceptable substitute; often used to allay anxiety.
Dissociation
disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment. The disturbance may be sudden or gradual, transient or chronic.
Distractibility
Double bind
Interaction in which one person demands a response to a message containing mutually contradictory signals, while the other person is unable either to comment on the incongruity or to escape from the situation.
Drive
Basic urge, instinct, motivation; a term used to avoid confusion with the more purely biological concept of instinct.
Dyad
A two-person relationship, such as the therapeutic relationship between doctor and patient in individual psychotherapy.
Dysarthria
Imperfect articulation of speech due to disturbances of muscular control or incoordination.
Dysgeusia
Perversion of the sense of taste.
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