poverty of speech

poverty of speech

excessively brief speech with few elaborations that occurs in schizophrenia or occasionally in a major depressive episode. It is distinct from poverty of content of speech, in which the quality of speech is diminished.

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daylight vision

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white noise see noise.

contiguity principle

contiguity principle see law of contiguity.

adventitious visual impairment

adventitious visual impairment partial or total visual impa...

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