MANIA
\mˈe͡ɪniə], \mˈeɪniə], \m_ˈeɪ_n_i__ə]\
Definitions of MANIA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
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A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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With some, it means insanity. Disorder of the intellect, in which there is erroneous judgment or hallucination, which impels to acts of fury. If the raving be not directed to a single object, it is mania properly so called; if to one object, it constitutes monomania, which term is, however, usually given to melancholy. Mania attacks adults chiefly; and women more frequently than men. The prognosis is unfavourable. About one-third never recover; and they who do are apt to relapse. Separation is one of the most effective means of treatment, with attention to the corporeal condition and every thing that can add to the mental comfort of the patient, and turn his thoughts away from the subjects of his delusion. In the violence of the paroxysms, recourse must be had to the strait waistcoat, the shower bath, etc. Separation should be continued for some weeks during convalescence, with the view of preventing a relapse.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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An old term for an acute psychosis with active and violent symptoms, now obsolete as special type.
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See psychosis.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Madness; lunacy;— any violent derangement of the mental powers; delirium unattended by fever;— any unreasonable or inordinate desire or propensity; excessive or insane notion or passion— when directed to one object, it is called monomania.
