organic disorder
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- noun
- /ɔrˈɡænɪk dɪsˈɔrdər/
- Specialized
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trastorno orgánico
- The doctor explained that her fatigue was due to an organic disorder affecting her thyroid gland.
Examples
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Memory loss generally occurs in large numbers due to organic disorders, brain damage, or nerve problems.
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Obviously, he has an organic disorder.
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There'll be a greater ability to provide an accurate diagnosis of organic disorders.
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Patients with an organic disorder often experience symptoms directly related to the physical changes in their body.
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Identifying an organic disorder can help in understanding the underlying causes of the patient's condition.
Antonyms
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A condition that causes real symptoms without a clear physical cause
How Physical
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'organic' in the medical sense means relating to physical organs or physiological causes, and 'disorder' means a medical condition, so a learner who knows both words can infer a condition caused by bodily/structural changes. Although 'organic' has other senses (e.g. natural or chemical-free), in this medical collocation the semantic combination is transparent and supported by similar formations in other languages.
Etymology
Organic disorder uses organic to mean 'from an organ' and disorder to mean a health problem. Doctors used the phrase to show the problem comes from a real physical change in an organ or part of the body, not just from thoughts or feelings, so it means a disorder with a clear physical 'cause'.