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intermittent explosive disorder (medicine)


intermittent explosive disorder
<psychology> An uncommon disorder that begins in early childhood, characterised by repeated acts of violent, aggressive behaviour in otherwise normal persons that is markedly out of proportion to the event that provokes it.

Synonym: dyscontrol, episodic dyscontrol syndrome.