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noun Psychiatry.
any of a group of disorders each having symptoms that occur on a continuum and certain features that are shared along its spectrum but that manifest in markedly different forms and degrees.See also autism spectrum disorder.
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Origin of spectrum disorder

First recorded in 1970–75
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