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Disorders Traits of disorders Chronicity Comorbidity Complications Diagnosis Disease course Disease transmission Dual diagnosis Epidemics Epidemiology Etiology Late effect Maintenance Medical sign Mortality rate Onset Pandemics Pathology Pathophysiology Patient history Premorbidity Prodrome Seasonal variations Sequela Severity Subtypes (disorders) Symptoms Treatment resistant disorders Risk At risk populations Heritability Protective factors Predisposition Risk factors Susceptibility Outcomes Cure Prognosis Recovery Relapse Remission Spontaneous remission Symptom remission Types Mental disorders List of mental disorders Physical disorders List of physical disorders

See Categories of disorders

In medicine, a disorder is a functional abnormality or disturbance.

In many cases, the terms "disorder", "disease" and "illness" are used interchangeably. However, because the term "disorder" is often considered more value-neutral than the term "disease", and is the preferred term within the discipline of psychology.

Medical disorders can be categorized into mental disorders or physical disorders. Mental disorder is the far more common term and physical disorder is mostly used just for distinction purposes.

The course and characteristics of disorders

• Chronicity
• Comorbidity
• Diagnosis
• Disease course
• Etiology
• Onset
• Prognosis
• Recovery
• Relapse
• Remission
• Severity
• Susceptibility
• Symptoms

See also

• Brain damage
• Chronic illness
• Client attitudes
• Client characteristics
• Clinical significance
• Diathesis-stress model
• Disability discrimination
• Disabled personnel
• Health complaints
• Illness behavior
• Injuries
• Intellectual disability
• International classification of diseases
• Positive and negative symptoms
• Predisposition
• Premorbidity
• Prenatal exposure
• Psychiatric symptoms
• Self-limiting illness
• Special needs
• Syndromes