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BIPOLAR DISORDER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression

Synonyms:

bipolar disorder; manic-depressive psychosis; manic depression; manic depressive illness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("bipolar disorder" is a kind of...):

affective disorder; emotional disorder; emotional disturbance; major affective disorder (any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bipolar disorder"):

cyclic disorder; cyclothymia; cyclothymic disorder (a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time)

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 Context examples: 

Decreased DLG4 gene expression is associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

(DLG4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

But children and adults can have bipolar disorder too.

(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

For patients who had presented with deliberate self-harm, those with a comorbid diagnosis of bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, or a psychotic disorder were more likely to die by suicide than those without these co-occurring diagnoses.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

Bipolar disorder often starts in a person's late teen or early adult years.

(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

The causes of bipolar disorder aren't always clear.

(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness.

(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)