MELANCHOLIA
\mˌɛlənkˈə͡ʊli͡ə], \mˌɛlənkˈəʊliə], \m_ˌɛ_l_ə_n_k_ˈəʊ_l_iə]\
Definitions of MELANCHOLIA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.
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A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.
By Noah Webster.
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An affective disorder manifested by either a dysphoric mood or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. The mood disturbance is prominent and relatively persistent.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A mental disease marked by apathy and indifference to one's surroundings, mental sluggishness and depression. 2. A symptom occurring in other psychoses, marked by depression of spirits and by a sluggish and painful process of thought.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Melancholy- m. Autochirica, Suicide- m. Errabunda, Cuttubuth, Kutubuth- m. Flatuosa, Hypochondriasis- m. Nervea, Hypochondriasis- m. Pleonectica, see Pleonectica- m. Saltans, Chorea- m. Suicidium, Suicide- m. Uterina, Nymphomania- m. Zoanthropia, Melancholy.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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