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pervasive developmental disorders

pervasive developmental disorders is the plural of pervasive developmental disorder.

Meaning of pervasive developmental disorder

Noun

pervasive developmental disorder (plural pervasive developmental disorders)

  1. Any of a group of disorders characterized by delays in the development of multiple basic functions including socialization and communication. They were five in the DSM-IV: Asperger syndrome, autism, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett syndrome, and PDD-NOS.
    Synonyms:
    PDD

Questions about pervasive developmental disorders

What is pervasive developmental disorders the plural of?
Pervasive developmental disorders is the plural of pervasive developmental disorder.

Words near pervasive developmental disorders in the dictionary

  1. pervasion
  2. pervasions
  3. pervasive
  4. pervasive arousal withdrawal syndrome
  5. pervasive developmental disorder
  6. pervasive developmental disorders
  7. pervasive game
  8. pervasive games
  9. pervasive refusal syndrome
  10. pervasively
  11. pervasiveness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pervasive developmental disorders (page history and authors); pervasive developmental disorder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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