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Multiple personality
Multiple personality Split personality; a mental condition in which a person experiences him/herself as two or more different people, differently named, and with major extremes in behavior and life-style, each dissociated from the other, with variable degrees of overlap and shared memory or mutual amnesia Paraphilic sex crimes are commonly committed in a fugue-like, or dual-personality state Transvestophiles have a male and a female personality.
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Personality
The uniqueness that characterizes an individual as a person as compared with, and in response to others, with respect to consistency or inconsistency of behavior and life-style.
Condition
The term "condition" has a number of biomedical meanings including the following: 1.An unhealthy state, such as in "this is a progressive condition." 2.A state of fitness, such as "getting into condition." 3.Something that is essential to the occurrence of something else; essentially a "precondition." 4.As a verb: to cause a change in something so that a response that was previously associated with a certain stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus; to condition a person, as in behavioral conditioning.
Memory
In the immune system, memory denotes an active state of immunity to a specific antigen, such that a second encounter with that antigen leads to a larger and more rapid response.
Amnesia
Loss of memory. Types of amnesia include: anterograde Loss of memory of events that occur after the onset of the etiological condition or agent. retrograde Loss of memory of events that occurred before the onset of the etiological condition or agent.
Paraphilic
Impersonating an older person and being treated as one by a partner - one of the stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilias.
Female
The traditional definition of female was "an individual of the sex that bears young" or "that produces ova or eggs". However, things are not so simple today. Female can be defined by physical appearance, by chromosome constitution (see Female chromosome complement), or by gender identification. Female chromosome complement: The large majority of females have a 46, XX chromosome complement (46 chromosomes including two X chromosomes). A minority of females have other chromosome constitutions such as 45,X (45 chromosomes including only one X chromosome) and 47,XXX (47 chromosomes including three X chromosomes).
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Multan doctors
All doctors near Multan, Pakistan. Doctors who can assist a patient in Multan.
MultiCare Health System
The MultiCare Health System is a hospital in Tacoma, Washington, United States.
Multicentre trial
A clinical trial conducted according to a single protocol but at more than one site, and therefore, carried out by more than one investigator.
Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis
A rare disorder which may be mistaken for rheumatoid arthritis due to the presence of nodules and an erosive arthritis.
Multidisciplinary
Several branches of medicine, science, or other professions working together toward common goals.
Multifuge
Multifuge is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): piperazine citrate.
Multigated Acquisition Scan (MUGA scan)
A nuclear scan that evaluates the pumping function of the ventricles.
Multihance
Multihance is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): gadobenate dimeglumine.
Multihance multipack
Multihance multipack is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): gadobenate dimeglumine.
Multiphilia
The compulsive condition of recurrent limerence or falling in love and pair-bonding with a new partner for a period of limited duration. It is one of the manifestations of ultraertia. The degree of pair-bondedness with the partner, despite its brevity, distinguishes multiphilia from nymphomania and satyriasis (Don Juanism).
Multiple abortion
Two or more miscarriages (spontaneous abortions) by a woman. Couples who have had multiple abortions have about a 5% chance that one member of the couple is carrying a chromosome translocation responsible for the miscarriages.
Multiple birth
More than 1 baby delivered.
Multiple gestation
The term to used to describe more than one fetus in the womb, as in the case of twins, triplets, or other higher order multiples. With the use of fertility drugs, multiples have become more common.
Multiple sclerosis
An auto-immune disease of the central nervous system, mainly affecting young adults, whose origin is unknown. It damages nerve fiber insulation (myelin) in a random and patchy manner, causing a wide range of neurological defects. It is characterized clinically by symptoms that typically abate spontaneously in the early years of the disease but often get gradually worse in later years.
Multiplexed paraphilia
A situation in which a person may mainifest several paraphilic syndromes synchronously with one another.
Multipotent stem cells
Stem cells from the embryo, fetus, or adult, whose progeny are of multiple differentiated cell types and usually, but not necessarily, all of a particular tissue, organ, or physiological system.
Multivariate
Having more than one variable, or caused by more than one determinant.
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Mount
Together with thrusting, the penovaginal part of sexual intercourse. In human beings, either sex may get in position to mount the other, whereas in most other animals, the female presents, and the male mounts.
Mullerian duct structures
The structures in the fetus that will, in the female, develop into the uterus and fallopian tubes; named for Johannes P. Müller, German physiologist (1801-1848).
Mullerian ducts
The structures in the fetus that will, in the female, develop into the uterus and fallopian tubes; named for Johannes P. Müller, German physiologist (1801-1848).
Mullerian-inhibiting hormone
A hormone produced by the fetal testis. Its function is to vestigiate the primordial Müllerian ducts, thus preventing the development of a uterus and fallopian tubes in the male.
Multiphilia
The compulsive condition of recurrent limerence or falling in love and pair-bonding with a new partner for a period of limited duration. It is one of the manifestations of ultraertia. The degree of pair-bondedness with the partner, despite its brevity, distinguishes multiphilia from nymphomania and satyriasis (Don Juanism).
Multiple personality
Multiplexed paraphilia
A situation in which a person may mainifest several paraphilic syndromes synchronously with one another.
Multivariate
Having more than one variable, or caused by more than one determinant.
Munchausen's syndrome
A factitious or sham illness or condition in which the symptoms mimic those of another illness but are clandestinely produced by the patient in himself or herself; or, by proxy, by a parent in his/her child.
Mutable
Transient and able to be changed.
Mysophilia
1. A paraphilia of the fetishistic/talismanic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent oneself-degradation and self-defilement by smelling, chewing or otherwise utilizing sweaty or soiled clothing or articles of menstrual hygiene 2. the condition in which a person is dependent on something soiled or filthy, for example, sweaty underwear or used menstrual pads, in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. There is overlap between mysophilia, coprophilia, and urophilia.
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