spectrum disorder


nounPsychiatry.
  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.: See also autism spectrum disorder.

Origin of spectrum disorder

1
First recorded in 1970–75

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