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A lack of normal rhythm, melody, and articulation of speech.

This condition may be present in patients with parkinsonism.

1. An irregularity in an otherwise normal rhythm, especially of heartbeats or brainwaves.
2. Abnormal, disordered, or disturbed rhythm.
3. An abnormality in an otherwise normal rhythmic pattern, as of brain waves being recorded by an electroencephalograph.

A common scaly macular eruption that occurs primarily on the face, scalp (dandruff), and other areas of increased sebaceous gland secretion; the lesions are covered with a slightly adherent oily scale.

A subjective impression that all, or part of, the body has become deformed, for example that it has become smaller, or that a limb or part of a limb belongs to someone else.

1. Sleep disorders characterized by a disturbance in the amount, quality, or timing of sleep.
2. Any disturbances of normal sleep or rhythm pattern.
3. Any disturbance involving the amount, quality, or timing of sleep.

They include primary insomnia, primary hypersomnia, narcolepsy, breathing-related sleep disorders, altitude insomnia, food allergy insomnia, environmental sleep disorder, and circadian rhythm sleep disorders.

A person who has a disturbance of normal sleep.

Difficulty in standing.

Lack of symmetry.

Muscular tremor, resulting from a disorder of the spinal cord.

1. The study of apparently useless organs or parts.
2. A lack of purposefulness, or of a contribution to the final result.
3. The doctrine of purposelessness or of the absence of a final cause.

1. An undignified and painful death due to the postponement of a merciful death.
2. Painful or lingering death.

A disorder of the sense of temperature, or heat, perception.

1. A mood disorder characterized by mild depression.
2. A type of depression involving long-term, chronic symptoms that do not disable a person, but which keeps one from functioning fully or from feeling at one's best.
3. Dysthymia is less severe than depression and what is considered a major depression; however, people with dysthymia may experience major depressive episodes.
4. Depression, usually of less severity than psychotic depression or a major depressive disorder.

Someone who is suffering from dysthymia.

Imperfect development and function of the thyroid gland.