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bipolar disorders

bipolar disorders is the plural of bipolar disorder.

Meaning of bipolar disorder

Noun

bipolar disorder (countable and uncountable, plural bipolar disorders)

  1. A psychiatric diagnostic category, previously called manic depression, characterised by mood swings between great energy (mania) and clinical depression.
    • An open study comparing response to lamotrigine in patients with rapid-cycling versus non-rapid-cycling bipolar disorder also indicated efficacy, with some evidence that rapid-cycling patients with more severe manic symptoms at the start of treatment respod less well (367).2002, American Psychiatric Association, American Journal of Psychiatry: Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients with Bipolar Disorder (Revision), page 30
    Synonyms:
    bipolar affective disorder, manic depression, schizomania

Questions about bipolar disorders

What is bipolar disorders the plural of?
Bipolar disorders is the plural of bipolar disorder.

Words near bipolar disorders in the dictionary

  1. bipolar
  2. bipolar cell
  3. bipolar cells
  4. bipolar disorder
  5. bipolar disordered
  6. bipolar disorders
  7. bipolar I
  8. bipolar I disorder
  9. bipolar II
  10. bipolar II disorder
  11. bipolarise

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