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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

And many people with major depressive disorder learn to project an artificial light.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

To investigate this relationship further, the FIU team plans to examine individual parasomnias in greater detail, including sleepwalking and REM sleep behavior disorder.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

Chief Constable Jo Farrell issued a warning to anyone who may get caught up in disorder.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

“Ms. McPhillips thinks you might have a reading disorder, that’s all.”

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Researchers have investigated their involvement in inflammatory bowel disease, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

An estimated 50 million to 70 million Americans experience sleep disorders, making them a major public health concern.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

Differences in these systems may help explain why people with sleep disorders often experience slower reaction times, difficulty making decisions, and a greater likelihood of errors or accidents.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

This finding may help explain why disorders such as sleepwalking, recurring nightmares, and sleep terrors can sometimes be accompanied by difficulties with mood, behavior, or emotional control.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

"Urtica dioica. Effective in treating kidney disorders, hemorrhages, and gout."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

Other clusters with a far more disordered geometry have, comparatively, many more spirals and irregulars.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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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