disorder
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
disorder/dɪsˈɔːdə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a lack of order; a confused or untidy state.
- 2 the disruption of peaceful and law-abiding behaviour.
- 3 Medicine a disruption of normal physical or mental functions: a skin disorder.
– origin C15: alt., influenced by order, of earlier disordain, from OFr. desordener, ult. based on L. ordinare ‘ordain’.
'disorder' also found in these Oxford entries:
ADHD
- agraphia
- all
- anarchy
- Angelman syndrome
- anorexia
- anxiety
- Asperger's syndrome
- attack
- attention deficit disorder
- BDD
- bipolar
- bipolar disorder
- body dysmorphic disorder
- bulimia
- chaos
- chaotic
- Chinese fire drill
- chorea
- chronotherapy
- confusion
- conversion
- Cushing's syndrome
- cystic fibrosis
- dementia
- derange
- diabetes
- Dianetics
- disaffected
- disease
- distemper
- Down's syndrome
- dyscalculia
- dyslexia
- dysphasia
- dysphonia
- dyspraxia
- dystrophy
- EBD
- echolalia
- embroil
- encopresis
- entropy
- epilepsy
- ferment
- gastric flu
- Guillain–Barré syndrome
- haemochromatosis
- havoc
