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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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Lewy body dementia symptoms tend to start with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, such as screaming or kicking during sleep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The same nerve cells have previously been found to be damaged or missing in people with multiple system atrophy, a rare, fatal neurological disorder related to Parkinson's disease.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The American Society of Addiction Medicine defines addiction as a chronic brain disorder.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

"I think looting is really not good," one of the demonstrators said of last Saturday's disorder.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

There’s a condition kids suffer from, a compulsive disorder that makes them do things they themselves don’t understand.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Identifying that chemical could help scientists better understand neurological disorders, unusual visual experiences, and the processes through which the brain creates our perception of reality.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

She worries many of them will develop post-traumatic stress disorders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Mutations affecting TET2 are frequently found in leukemia and related blood disorders.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

These disorders, known as tauopathies, involve the buildup of abnormal tangles of a protein called tau inside the brain.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

For centuries many of the inhabitants of this region suffered from what came to be known as “the Reichenstein disease” — chronic arsenicism with accompanying disorders of the liver, skin, and gastrointestinal and nervous systems.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Rather than simply becoming disordered, the particles rearrange themselves into an unusual configuration that behaves differently from the quantum systems scientists have traditionally studied.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Bossy’s direction raises the clamorous volume instead of sorting out the disordered structure or digging into the unexamined silences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Rather than understanding dissociation as a symptom of disordered eating, researchers increasingly consider how it may both emerge from and help maintain these patterns.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert and author of the book How to Sleep Well, argues that gamifying sleep is creating more disordered sleeping.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The crow resembled more a humpy ball with straggling tail feathers, feathers as wispy and disordered as Gwystyl’s cobwebby hair.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

The researchers then expose the cilia to a damped, alternating magnetic field which has the effect of disordering the magnetization of the microparticles.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

The economic and social troubles of 1993 rippled through my community, as these things do, disordering the trajectories of lives and industries to the ruin of some.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021

Could this disordering of locality serve to explain the quantum nonlocality inherent in entangled particles?

From Scientific American ● Apr. 4, 2019

Furthermore, disordering the ligand distribution drastically increases adhesion growth, but reduces the rigidity threshold for adhesion collapse.

From Nature ● Dec. 5, 2017

But the vapour of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapour at last that I saw two men looking at me.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens


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