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disorder | morgellons |

As a noun disorder

is absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.

As a proper noun morgellons is

(pathology) a controversial, unproven skin disorder usually dismissed as delusional parasitosis, and characterized by skin lesions producing odd fibers of unknown origin.

disorder

English

Alternative forms

* disordre (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
    • After playing the children left the room in disorder .
  • A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
    • The class was thrown into disorder when the teacher left the room
    The army tried to prevent disorder when claims the elections had been rigged grew stronger.
  • (medicine) A physical or psychical malfunction.
    • Bulimia is an eating disorder .

    Synonyms

    * (absence of order) chaos, entropy; see also * (disturbance of civic peace) See also

    Derived terms

    * autism spectrum disorder * borderline personality disorder * disordely * eating disorder * seasonal affective disorder * spectrum disorder

    morgellons

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Morgellons disease * Morgellons syndrome

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun) (wikipedia Morgellons)
  • (pathology) A controversial, unproven skin disorder usually dismissed as delusional parasitosis, and characterized by skin lesions producing odd fibers of unknown origin.
  • (obsolete) A disease causing hairs to grow on the backs of children.
  • * 1690 , Thomas Browne, "":
    • But Hairs make fallible Predictions, and many Temples early gray have out-lived the Psalmist's Period. Hairs which have most amused me have not been in the Face or Head, but on the Back, and not in Men but Children, as I long ago observed in that Endemial Distemper of little Children in Languedock, called the Morgellons , wherein they critically break out with harsh Hairs on their Backs, which takes off the Unquiet Symptomes of the Disease, and delivers them from Coughs and Convulsions.