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dementia praecox

noun

Etymology

A Latin phrase coined by Arnold Pick in 1891, first used in German and later adopted into English. From the Latin dēmentia (“madness; insanity”) + praecox (“premature; untimely”, whence English precocious), together meaning “untimely madness” or “premature dementia”. Here, dēmentia carries the connotation of senile dementia.

Definitions

  1. schizophrenia

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dementia praecox. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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