FUNCTIONAL DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does functional disorder mean? 

• FUNCTIONAL DISORDER (noun)
  The noun FUNCTIONAL DISORDER has 1 sense:

1. disorder showing symptoms for which no physiological or anatomical cause can be identified

  Familiarity information: FUNCTIONAL DISORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNCTIONAL DISORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disorder showing symptoms for which no physiological or anatomical cause can be identified

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("functional disorder" is a kind of...):

disorder; upset (a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning)

Antonym:

organic disorder (disorder caused by a detectable physiological or structural change in an organ)

 Context examples 

A renal functional disorder characterized by proteinuria, edema, hyperlipidemia and hypoalbuminemia.

(Nephrotic Syndrome with Lesion of Endothelial Glomerulonephritis, NCI Thesaurus)

A therapeutic procedure to treat pathologic structural or functional disorders of the heart.

(Cardiac Therapeutic Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)