But then we read that the $16 billion deal would make the company the fourth-largest liquor distributor in the world, by volume, and we realizedâwe werenât entirely sure who the other top distributors were.
The term culture-bound syndrome denotes recurrent, locality-specific patterns of aberrant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Many of these patterns are indigenously considered to be illnesses, or at least afflictions, and most have local names.
COPA syndrome is an autosomal dominant genetic condition that can vary in severity. Autosomal dominant means that if a person inherits the mutated gene, he or she has the disease, which usually starts in childhood and typically involves both lung disease and arthritis.