Sentence examples for diagnostic term from inspiring English sources

The official diagnostic term for health anxiety or hypochondria is illness anxiety disorder.

Ever the acute observer, his case histories confirmed that under a single diagnostic term was a spectrum of human biology.

In 1980, the term "bipolar disorder" replaced "manic-depressive disorder" as a diagnostic term in the D.S.M., but it was applied only to teen-agers and adults.

Anorexia and bulimia in the case of models; compulsive over-eating (what's the diagnostic term for binge eating?) in the case of Michelin inspectors.

Instead, she abided a chronic, low-level version of the illness — the diagnostic term was dysthymia — for the rest of her life.

Doing so is risky business, because it allows us to include biologically unrelated diseases under one imprecise diagnostic term.

What "insane" meant to her is impossible to reconstruct in modern diagnostic terms.

That was its intention: to capture as much psychological suffering as possible in diagnostic terms.

The diagnostic terms of psychiatry have been introduced at various stages of the discipline's development and from very different theoretical standpoints.

Treating his subject in diagnostic terms, Mercurio - a doctor and author of the hospital drama Bodies, one of the best British TV shows of recent years - suggests that the sexual career, instead of being a sidebar, was the key, and that the fate of the free world was determined by a maverick rather than "the juggernaut of conventional morality" that he publicly espoused.

Since its inception, the board has been so riven with conflicts that it took a half century to update what were supposed to be temporary disability standards, leaving in place until 1998 archaic diagnostic terms like "cretinism," "imbecility" and "middle-class moronism".