bipolar disorder: Meaning and Definition of

bipo'lar disor'der

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— Psychiatry. Psychiatry.
  1. an affective disorder characterized by periods of mania alternating with periods of depression, usually interspersed with relatively long intervals of normal mood. Formerly,
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