endocrine disrupting properties

intrusiveness

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include self-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptom ...[+++]s, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

Definition: A wide variety of medicaments and folk remedies may be involved, but the particularly important groups are: (a) psychotropic drugs that do not produce dependence, such as antidepressants, (b) laxatives, and (c) analgesics that may be purchased without medical prescription, such as aspirin and paracetamol. Persistent use of these substances often involves unnecessary contacts with medical professionals or supporting staff, and is sometimes accompanied by harmful physical effects of the substances. Attempts to dissuade or fo ...[+++]rbid the use of the substance are often met with resistance; for laxatives and analgesics this may be in spite of warnings about (or even the development of) physical harm such as renal dysfunction or electrolyte disturbances. Although it is usually clear that the patient has a strong motivation to take the substance, dependence or withdrawal symptoms do not develop as in the case of the psychoactive substances specified in F10-F19. | Abuse of:antacids | herbal or folk remedies | steroids or hormones | vitamins | Laxative habit

single-event effect [ SEE | single-event upset | single event upset ]

Definition: In many cases, a disturbance of sleep is one of the symptoms of another disorder, either mental or physical. Whether a sleep disorder in a given patient is an independent condition or simply one of the features of another disorder classified elsewhere, either in this or in others, should be determined on the basis of its clinical presentation and course as well as on the therapeutic considerations and priorities at the time of the consultation. Generally, if the sleep disorder is one of the major complaints and is perceived as a condition in itself, the present code should be used along with other pertinent diagnoses describi ...[+++]ng the psychopathology and pathophysiology involved in a given case. This category includes only those sleep disorders in which emotional causes are considered to be a primary factor, and which are not due to identifiable physical disorders classified elsewhere.

disruptive effect

electromagnetic interference | EMI | electromagnetic disturbance

anthropogenic interference | anthropogenic interference with the climate system

But this opportunity is again, as we mentioned yesterday— we had gone through clause 43, where the definition of hormone-disrupting substances was included in this bill, and in the following clause 44 we have also included an amendment that the minister shall study and research the issues surrounding hormone-disrupting substances.

In terms of the honourable parliamentary secretary's comments about why we would want to include a specific reference to endocrine-disrupting substances, I'd also like to argue—and I think Ms. Lloyd will be able to expand on this point—that due to the hit-and-run nature of hormone-disrupting substances, they can only be detected at certain times and they're not necessarily persistent and bioaccumulative, and if a fetus is exposed at the wrong time in terms of its reproduction, there can be serious health implications with regard to its immune, nervous, or reproductive systems, and human or non-human organisms can be ...[+++]affected.

With regard to an endocrine-disrupting substance, in the year 2000 there's going to be this test that the U.S. is going to have developed with the help of Canadian scientists resident in Environment Canada, and we're going to have a substance that somebody can finally screen and nail down as an endocrine-disrupting substance.

Under installation conditions specified by the manufacturer, the effect of the flow disturbances shall not exceed one third of the MPE.