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spectrum disorder

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noun

Psychiatry.

  1. 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.

Etymology

Origin of spectrum disorder

First recorded in 1970–75

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