buying
purchasing | the act of buying, buying and selling fill their days, shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge |
| shopping | searching for or buying goods or services, went shopping for a reliable plumber, does her shopping at the mall rather than down town |
mail-order buying
catalog buying | buying goods to be shipped through the mail |
| addiction | (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor), a surrender to a master, under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery |
plaza mall center shopping mall
shopping center
shopping centre | mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers, usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area, a modern version of the traditional marketplace, a good plaza should have a movie house, they spent their weekends at the local malls |
| shopping | the commodities purchased from stores, she loaded her shopping into the carwomen carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance |
| shopping bag | a bag made of plastic or strong paper (often with handles), used to transport goods after shopping |
| shopping basket | a handbasket used to carry goods while shopping |
| shopping cart | a handcart that holds groceries or other goods while shopping |
| syndrome | a complex of concurrent things, every word has a syndrome of meanings |
| grocery list shopping list | a list of heterogenous items that someone wants, the union came to the table with a whole grocery list of demands |
| shopping list | a list of items to be purchased |
| addiction | an abnormally strong craving |
| compulsive | a person with a compulsive disposition, someone who feels compelled to do certain things |
installment plan
installment buying
time plan | a system for paying for goods by installments |
acute brain disorder
acute organic brain syndrome | any disorder (as sudden confusion or disorientation) in an otherwise normal person that is due to reversible (temporary) impairment of brain tissues (as by head injuries or drugs or infection) |
adult respiratory distress syndrome
ARDS
wet lung
white lung | acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales, inflammation of the lungs which become stiff and fibrous and cannot exchange oxygen, occurs among persons exposed to irritants such as corrosive chemical vapors or ammonia or chlorine etc. |
attention deficit disorder
ADD
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
ADHD
hyperkinetic syndrome
minimal brain dysfunction
minimal brain damage
MBD | a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders |
bulimarexia
binge-purge syndrome
binge-vomit syndrome
bulima nervosa | a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food, characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting |
| bulimia binge-eating syndrome | a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and selfondemnation |
| carpal tunnel syndrome | a painful disorder caused by compression of a nerve in the carpal tunnel, characterized by discomfort and weakness in the hands and fingers and by sensations of tingling, burning or numbness |
addiction
dependence dependance dependency habituation | being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) |
drug addiction
white plague | an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug) |
alcoholism
alcohol addiction
inebriation drunkenness | habitual intoxication, prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms |
| cocaine addiction | an addiction to cocaine |
| heroin addiction | an addiction to heroin |
| caffein addiction | an addiction to caffein |
| nicotine addiction | an addiction to nicotine |
Banti's disease
Banti's syndrome | a disease characterized by congestion and enlargement of the spleen, accompanied by anemia or cirrhosis |
| Kallman's syndrome | hypogonadism with anosmia, a congenital sexual disorder that prevents the testicles from maturing at puberty |
Kawasaki disease
mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome | an acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever, of unknown cause |
Lambert-Eaton syndrome
Eaton-Lambert syndrome
myasthenic syndrome
carcinomatous myopathy | a disease seen in patients with lung cancer and characterized by weakness and fatigue of hip and thigh muscles and an aching back, caused by antibodies directed against the neuromuscular junctions |
| Asperger's syndrome | a psychiatric disorder usually noted during early school years, characterized by impaired social relations and by repetitive patterns of behavior |
paralysis agitans
Parkinsonism
Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's syndrome
Parkinson's
shaking palsy | a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination |
Addison's disease
Addison's syndrome
hypoadrenalism
hypoadrenocorticism | a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin |
Cushing's syndrome
hyperadrenocorticism | a glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol |
AIDS
acquired immune deficiency syndrome | a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles |
respiratory distress syndrome
respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn
hyaline membrane disease | an acute lung disease of the newborn (especially the premature newborn), lungs cannot expand because of a wetting agent is lacking, characterized by rapid shallow breathing and cyanosis and the formation of a glassy hyaline membrane over the alveoli |
| Horner's syndrome | a pattern of symptoms occurring as a result of damage to nerves in the cervical region of the spine (drooping eyelids and constricted pupils and absence of facial sweating) |
Hurler's syndrome
Hurler's disease
gargoylism
dysostosis multiplex
lipochondrodystrophy | hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism, characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation |
| Marfan's syndrome | an autosomal dominant disease characterized by elongated bones (especially of limbs and digits) and abnormalities of the eyes and circulatory system |
mongolism
mongolianism
Down's syndrome
Down syndrome
trisomy | a congenital disorder caused by having an extra st chromosome, results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation |
severe acute respiratory syndrome
SARS | a respiratory disease of unknown etiology that apparently originated in mainland China in , characterized by fever and coughing or difficulty breathing or hypoxia, can be fatal |
| organic brain syndrome | mental abnormality resulting from disturbance of the structure or function of the brain |
| syndrome | a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease |
cervical disc syndrome
cervical root syndrome | an abnormal condition resulting from compression of spinal nerve roots in the neck region, involves neck pains and muscular weakness and paresthesia |
| Chinese restaurant syndrome | headache and tingling or burning feelings and sweating caused by eating food that contains monosodium glutamate |
| Conn's syndrome | disturbances in saltwater balance and symptoms of weakness and muscular cramps and twitching and convulsions and sometimes paralysis, usually caused by a benign tumor of the cortex of the adrenal gland that leads to excess secretion of aldosterone |
fetal alcohol syndrome
FAS | a congenital medical condition in which body deformation occurs or facial development or mental ability is impaired because the mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy |
Gulf War syndrome
Persian Gulf illness | a medical condition of uncertain origin that affected many veterans of the Gulf War, characterized by fatigue and headache and dizziness and nausea and rashes and joint pain and respiratory disorders |