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Psychosis   Listen
noun
Psychosis  n.  
1.
Any vital action or activity.
2.
(Med.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.






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"Psychosis" Quotes from Famous Books



... some etiological and physiological diagnostics. We shall be able from the very outset to recognize that a disorder, in all appearance slight and which is not deeply set, presents a bad prognosis, and we shall be able to foresee a serious and deep psychosis in the future. To-day, without doubt, one can often distinguish from the outset the future general paralytic from the simple neurasthenic. But in the actual state of science this ability to distinguish is not frequent ...
— A Psychiatric Milestone - Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 • Various

... the child's tragical condition. In such cases the dullest conscience must feel remorse. It is, however, not always the fault of the immediate parents. It may be a far more remote inheritance that has started the degenerative psychosis that results in either insanity, feeble-mindedness, dipsomania, or ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer



Words linked to "Psychosis" :   mental disease, mental illness, dementia praecox, Korsakov's psychosis, schizophrenic disorder, polyneuritic psychosis, psychotic, psychopathy, delirium tremens, senile psychosis, DTs, schizophrenia, schizophrenic psychosis, manic-depressive psychosis



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