The phrase "as a distinct condition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when specifying or emphasizing a particular state or situation that is separate from others.
Example: "The patient was diagnosed with diabetes as a distinct condition, separate from her other health issues."
Alternatives: "as a separate condition" or "as an individual condition".
MBI is a new concept, too new for the international psychiatric bodies who publish diagnostic criteria to have weighed in on whether it should be recognised as a distinct condition.
It first appeared as "Infantile Autism"; it was subsequently redesignated "Autistic Disorder"; and now it comes under the heading "Autism Spectrum Disorder" (A.S.D .. Asperger's was added as a distinct condition within the spectrum in 1994, but has now disappeared, having been merged into A.S.D. The DSM not only defines the condition; it makes it institutionally consequential.
The disease was first recognized as a distinct condition by Michael Underwood in 1789 and the virus that causes it was first identified in 1908 by Karl Landsteiner.
Indeed, the words from the Bethlem archives were remarkably similar to those used in the American Psychiatric Association's manual (usually called the DSM), which describes "non-suicidal self-injury" as a distinct condition.
Patients with SFN have complaints of tingling, burning, and pain, which often is not recognized as a distinct condition and continues to be misinterpreted as FM.
This finding led those authors to propose KRS with iron deposits as a distinct condition called neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) [ 20].
An emerging controversy has been whether AS is a distinct condition from high functioning autism (HFA), and if so, can it be reliably and validly diagnosed.
Some still see "schizophrenia" as a meaningful diagnosis for people suffering from a distinct condition that usually requires medication, and the only way they may be "unorthodox" is their advocacy for psychological therapy to be offered as well.
The establishment of autism as a distinct pathological condition has certainly improved the lot of countless patients and their family members, but, as Donvan and Zucker relate, the road has been far from smooth.
And while some mainstream medical professionals continue to insist that NCGS doesn't exist, several studies have validated it as a distinct clinical condition -- including gold-standard, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials.
From the initial description of COPD as a distinct clinical condition responsible for productive cough and shortness of breath in patients without tuberculosis [5], there has been considerable controversy about the role of lower respiratory tract bacteria in its pathogenesis.
