"Feighner criterion" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Feighner criteria [plural]
Etymology: Named after John Feighner, the first listed author of the 1972 psychiatric paper that described them. Head templates: {{en-noun|Feighner criteria}} Feighner criterion (plural Feighner criteria)
  1. (psychiatry, chiefly in the plural) Any of a set of influential psychiatric diagnostic criteria developed from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Tags: in-plural

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