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CP English 4
30 day vocab. day 11
18
English
Not Applicable
10/10/2005

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Term
Melancholia
Definition
Continued gloom and depression
Term
Manic-depression
Definition
Moods of violent excitement alternatingwith black depression
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Amnesia
Definition
Loss of memory
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Somnambulism
Definition
walking and preforming other actions during sleep
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dipsomania
Definition
uncontrollable craving for alcoholic liquor
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hypochondria
Definition
Morbid anxiety about one's health
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paranoia
Definition
delusions of persecution
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electra complex
Definition
Early and abnornal attachment of a girl for her father, with hostility to her mother.
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kleptomania
Definition
uncontrollable propensity to steal atricles of little value.
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megalomania
Definition
Delusions of grandeur
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insomnia
Definition
Chronic inablility to fall asleep.
Term
monomania
Definition
obsession in a single area
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pyromania
Definition
uncontorllable need to set fires
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schizophrenia
Definition
mental derangement characterized by loss of contact with reality; split personality
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claustrophobia
Definition
morbid dread of confined places
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agoraphobia
Definition
morbid dread of open spaces
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oedipus complex
Definition
unresolved attachment to mother with accompanying hatred of father
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acrophobia
Definition
morbid dread of heights
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