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The relation between two sentences whose meanings are essentially the same but whose surface structures differ.  

In the area of the drug culture, equipment used in the taking of drugs, including syringes, pipes, scales, and mirrors.  

A psychotic condition characterized by the person responding inadequately to situations, the responses including affective reactions and progressive disorganized associations. The person attempts to maintain self-esteem by carrying these reactions to an extreme.  

A type of schizophrenia characterized by dissociation, particularly between the intellectual processes and the affective dimension, disorganization with auditory and visual hallucinations, and paranoid delusions. A form of schizophrenia in which the person believes he or she is being persecuted. A type of schizophrenic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution, grandiosity, jealousy, or hallucinations with…

A personality or character disorder characterized by an abortive paranoid reaction manifested by projection, suspiciousness, jealously, and stubbornness.  

A disorder in which a person has persistent delusions but has no thought disorder and does not hallucinate. A mental disorder which causes someone experiencing it to believe strongly that something is not right with them, with someone else or with the world generally and to maintain the belief even when given evidence against it.…

A person suffering from paranoia.  

An air-filled hollow in the facial or cranial bones, communicating with the nasal cavity. One of the four pairs of sinuses in the skull near the nose, which open into the nasal cavity and are lined with sticky mucus. Any of several air cavities in bones around the nose. More commonly referred to as nasal…

In epidemiology, statistical techniques that can be used on quantitative data. The class of statistics based on the assumption that the samples measured are from normally distributed populations.  

The basis used for classification.