Whether a given medical condition is termed a functional disorder depends in part on the state of knowledge.
It's a purely functional disorder, but its outward form is distressing to the individual.
The scale was originally developed to distinguish organic and functional mental disorders in a hospital population of older people.
The suffix itself signifies only a general functional disorder, but the constructed words are more specific.
How would you cope with the functional disorder?
As a result, the mitochondria fall into a functional disorder, so the opening of the pore plays an important role in cell death.
It is being used experimentally to treat such functional disorders as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.
The functional disorders often significantly speed up the menopausal process and create more significant health problems, both physical and emotional, for the affected woman.
The term functional disorder is now used where hysterical and malingering were historically used.
A functional disorder of the nervous system.