dementia praecox

See also: dementia præcox

English

Alternative forms

• dementia præcox (obsolete)

Etymology

A (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin phrase coined in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German (by Arnold Pick in 1891) and later adopted into (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English: dēmentia (“madness”, “insanity”) + praecox (“premature”, “untimely”) (whence the English precocious) = “untimely madness” ≈ “premature dementia” (here, dēmentia carries the connotation of senile dementia).

Noun

dementia praecox (usually uncountable, plural dementiae praecoces)

1. (dated, psychiatry) schizophrenia

Translations

dated psychiatric diagnosis

• Russian: деме́нция пре́кокс (ru) (deméncija prékoks), ра́ннее слабоу́мие (ru) (ránneje slaboúmije)
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