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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Definition: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Noun

1. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Synonym: PTSD (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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Books

  • Copshock : Surviving Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (reference)

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Litigation: Guidelines for Forensic Assessment (reference)

  • Psychobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 821) (reference)

  • Victims of Cruelty: Somatic Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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Health

Other conditions such as major depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, bipolar mood disorder, dissociative disorders, other anxiety disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder or social phobia, eating disorders, or complex personality disorders may require concurrent treatment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

posttraumatic stress disorder

42
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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