premorbidity

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ morbidity.

Noun

premorbidity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being premorbid.
   • 2015 July 23, “Transcriptome Profiling of Peripheral Blood in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Reveals Functional Pathways Related to Psychosis and Autism Spectrum Disorder”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Some researchers have proposed that early social dysfunction in 22q11DS is associated with premorbidity to schizophrenia, and that these social impairments may result in a misdiagnosis of an ASD.