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major affective disorder
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Noun major affective disorder has 1 sense
- major affective disorder(n = noun.state) affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance - any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant; Array is a kind of disturbance, folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder
has particulars: clinical depression, depression, depressive disorder, mania, manic disorder, bipolar disorder, manic-depressive psychosis, manic depression, manic depressive illness
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