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bipolar psychosis (medicine)


bipolar psychosis


A mental disorder characterised by one or more episodes of mania (manic depression) which is usually accompanied by one or more episodes of depression (major depressive episode).

See: endogenous depression, manic-depressive.


detail(1) (iou)



detail noun. E17.
[French detail, formed as DETAIL verb.]
The treatment of a matter item by item; attention to particulars; small or minor items or events collectively. E17.
Day Lewis The vividness and detail of the author's recollections. L. van der Post Self-contained..even to such detail as a snake-bite outfit. N. Freeling The characteristic feminine memory for detail.
A meticulous account or description of particulars. arch. L17.
Military. The distribution of the orders of the day; a written list of orders, a roster. E18.
b. The assignment of a small party for a particular duty; a small detachment for a particular duty; the duty assigned. L18.
B. Malamud Had the cell searched by a detail of five guards. S. Bellow I didn't often get the toilet detail; he had too many important tasks for me.
A particular; a small part of a whole; a minor or unimportant item or circumstance. L18.
W. S. Maugham You give the reader broad indications and leave him to fill in the details. R. K. Narayan He asked details of our various movements.
spec. A small part of a work of Art, esp. considered in isolation; a minor feature or decoration in a building, picture, etc.; the items, particulars, or parts of a building or work of Art considered collectively; the manner of treating these. E19.
P. Nicholson The detail of both sculpture and masonry on the building.
b. In full detail drawing. An architect's or designer's separate large drawing of a small part of a building, machine, etc.; a working drawing. E19.
Phrases: in detail (a) item by item, minutely, (also in great detail, in much detail); (b) Military by the engagement of small portions of a force one after the Other. go into detail deal with a thing in its individual particulars. war of detail a war carried on in detail rather than by General engagements.
Comb.: detail drawing: see sense 5b above; detail man US a company's representative whose job is to sell (esp. new) drugs to doctors, pharmacists, etc.