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词汇 dementia praecox
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Definition of dementia praecox in English:

dementia praecox

noun ˈpriːkɒksdəˌmen(t)SHə ˈprēˌkäks
  • archaic term for schizophrenia
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France.
    • Or is she suffering from what German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin called dementia praecox, the antecedent of today's schizophrenia?
    • Schizophrenia, which used to be called early dementia or dementia praecox, is a devastating mental illness.
    • Emil Kraepelin proposed links between dementia praecox and hormones in 1892.
    • Among the illnesses he described were manic-depression and dementia praecox, a disorder renamed schizophrenia (split mind) by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler in 1911.

Origin

Latin, literally 'early insanity'.

Definition of dementia praecox in US English:

dementia praecox

noundəˌmen(t)SHə ˈprēˌkäks
  • dated term for schizophrenia
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Among the illnesses he described were manic-depression and dementia praecox, a disorder renamed schizophrenia (split mind) by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler in 1911.
    • Emil Kraepelin proposed links between dementia praecox and hormones in 1892.
    • Or is she suffering from what German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin called dementia praecox, the antecedent of today's schizophrenia?
    • He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France.
    • Schizophrenia, which used to be called early dementia or dementia praecox, is a devastating mental illness.

Origin

Latin, literally ‘early insanity’.

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