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involutional melancholia

 
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–noun Psychiatry.
(formerly) extreme depression related to menopause or, less frequently, the male climacteric.
Origin:
1905–10
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Main Entry: involutional melancholia
Function: noun
: a depression that occurs at the time of menopause or the climacteric and characterized especially by delusions ofsin, guilt, or poverty, by an obsession with death, and by delusions concerning the gastrointestinal tract called also involutional psychosis
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involutional melancholia n.
A form of depression that occurs in late middle age, sometimes accompanied by paranoia.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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