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permanent dominant idea (medicine) and DIDMOAD (health)


permanent dominant idea (medicine)


permanent dominant idea -->
fixed idea


An exaggerated notion, belief, or delusion that persists, despite evidence to the contrary, and controls the mind, the obstinate conviction of a psychotic person regarding the correctness of his delusion.

Synonym: idee fixe, overvalued idea, permanent dominant idea.


DIDMOAD (health)


An acronym that stands for Diabetes Insipidus (inability to concentrate the urine), Diabetes Mellitus, Optic Atrophy (degeneration of the nerve to the eye), and Deafness. These features are characteristic of this genetic disease which is also called the Wolfram syndrome. Patients usually also suffer from severe abnormalities of the nervous system that can be accompanied by behavior problems, psychiatric hospitalizations and, in about a quarter of cases, suicide attempts.