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noun
Any of a set of influential psychiatric diagnostic criteria developed from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences
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History
Named after John Feighner, the first listed author of the 1972 psychiatric paper that described them.
