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Meaning of "dementia praecox" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEMENTIA PRAECOX

New Latin, literally: premature dementia.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DEMENTIA PRAECOX

dementia praecox  [ˈpriːkɒks] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEMENTIA PRAECOX

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Dementia praecox is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEMENTIA PRAECOX MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dementia praecox

Dementia praecox

Dementia praecox refers to a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood. It is a term first used in 1891 in this Latin form by Arnold Pick, a professor of psychiatry at the German branch of Charles University in Prague. His brief clinical report described the case of a person with a psychotic disorder resembling hebephrenia. It was popularized by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1893, 1896 and 1899 in his first detailed textbook descriptions of a condition that would eventually be reframed into a substantially different disease concept and relabeled as schizophrenia. Kraepelin, regarding the major psychoses as naturally occurring disease entities, reduced the complex psychiatric taxonomies of the nineteenth century by dividing them into two classes: manic depressive psychosis or dementia praecox. This division is commonly referred to as the Kraepelinian dichotomy and it has had a significant and fundamental impact on twentieth-century psychiatry, though it has also been questioned.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEMENTIA PRAECOX


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bɒks
cox
kɒks
detox
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fox
fɒks
gearbox
ˈɡɪəˌbɒks
Hickox
ˈhɪkɒks
inbox
ˈɪnˌbɒks
jukebox
ˈdʒuːkˌbɒks
Knox
nɒks
locks
lɒks
mailbox
ˈmeɪlˌbɒks
orthodox
ˈɔːθəˌdɒks
ox
ɒks
princox
ˈprɪŋkɒks
rocks
rɒks
sox
sɒks
stocks
stɒks
toolbox
ˈtuːlbɒks
vox
vɒks
Xerox
ˈzɪərɒks

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEMENTIA PRAECOX

demeanour
demeasnure
dement
dementate
demented
dementedly
dementedness
dementi
dementia
dementia paralytica
demerara
demerara sugar
demeraran
demerge
demerger
demerit
demeritorious
demeritoriously
demersal
demerse

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEMENTIA PRAECOX

beatbox
black box
Botox
collection box
ejaculatio praecox
equinox
glory box
hotbox
hox
light box
lox
lunchbox
matchbox
music box
Nox
out of the box
PO box
sandbox
the box
tool box

Synonyms and antonyms of dementia praecox in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «dementia praecox» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEMENTIA PRAECOX

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The translations of dementia praecox from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dementia praecox» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

早老性痴呆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

demencia precoz
570 millions of speakers

English

dementia praecox
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पागलपन praecox
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الخرف مبتسر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

раннее слабоумие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

demência precoce
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডিমেনশিয়া প্রাইওক্স
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

démence précoce
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dementia praecox
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dementia praecox
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

認知症早発
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

치매 praecox
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dementia praecox
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

mất trí nhớ praecox
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டிமென்ஷியா பிரேகோக்ஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्मृतिभ्रंश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bunama testeresi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dementia praecox
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dementia praecox
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

раннє слабоумство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

demență praecox
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

πρώιμη άνοια
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

dementia praecox
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

dementia praecox
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

demens praecox
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dementia praecox

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMENTIA PRAECOX»

The term «dementia praecox» is normally little used and occupies the 121.331 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMENTIA PRAECOX» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dementia praecox

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMENTIA PRAECOX»

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Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia
Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia (1919) was the book in which Kraepelin first presented his work on schizophrenia to the English-speaking world.
Emil Kraepelin, 2002
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The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
dementia praecox 127 volume (second part) of this edition that Krae- pelin adjusts his concept of prognosis to admit that a partial remisison of symptoms occurred in approximately 26 percent of his patients. This brought dementia praecox in ...
Richard Noll, 2009
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Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary
Robert Jean Campbell. dementia praecox dendrite noticeable. Marked intellectual deterioration is present. Kanner believed that dementia praecocissima includes a variety of pathological conditions. “Some of the cases are indistinguishable ...
Robert Jean Campbell, 2009
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Dementia Praecox Studies; a Journal of Psychiatry of Adolescence
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: Society for the Promotion of the Study of Dementia Praecox. Subjects: Dementia Adolescence Schizophrenia Family
Bayard Taylor Holmes, 2009
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Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion?
once changed his mind about the putative regularities which allowed dementia praecox to be inferred. In 1896, for example, he described what he claimed was a meaningful cluster of behaviours from which he inferred dementia praecox.
Mary Boyle, 2002
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History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology: With an ...
He made the distinction, borrowed from Paul Julius Möbius, between endogenous and exogenous causes of dementia praecox. For Kraepelin, shortly before World War I, dementia praecox became a “peculiar destruction of the internal ...
Edwin R. Wallace, John Gach, 2010
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Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis
claim to know more about dementia praecox than Jung and Bleuler? Surprisingly , Dr. Karl Abraham did. Or was it Sigmund Freud speaking through Abraham? Freud had floated the idea that dementia praecox (or rather “paranoia” as Freud ...
George Makari, 2008
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Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies
to paranoia, dementia praecox provides an oblique reference to homosexuality; at least from the Schreber case on, paranoia is linked in psychoanalytic writing to homosexuality, whether as something caused by it or as a complex developed ...
Matthew Tinkcom, Amy Villarejo, 2001
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Abstracts of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
03 THE PSYCHOGENESIS OF MENTAL DISEASE 000039 The psychology of dementia praecox. 1. Critical survey of theoretical views on the psychology of dementia praecox. In: Jung, C., Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 3. Princeton ...
Carrie L. Rothgeb, 1994
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The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in ...
But to the psychiatrist, O'Connor was as distinct a case of dementia praecox as could be found. Her withdrawal from normal activities, her fear of death, and her delusional belief she had heart disease were symptomatic of the disorder; further,  ...
Elizabeth Lunbeck, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMENTIA PRAECOX»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dementia praecox is used in the context of the following news items.
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Response to Dell'Osso and Elli
Kraepelin E: Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia (Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English). Bristol, United Kingdom, Thoemmes Press, 2000. «Am J Psychiatry, Jul 15»
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Parsing schizophrenia
... bipolar disorder) and dementia praecox, a disorder comprising disorganization of thought and avolition pathologies with a chronic course. «OUPblog, May 15»
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Hop Along: live in Allstonlive in Allston (2015)
... who had no recordings and suffered from dementia praecox relatively early in life; her explanation left the audience dead silent). It was just a ... «Punknews.org, May 15»
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All Outdoors: Quabbin Reservoir opening was a grand one
Elmer, my dementia praecox English setter, and I were sitting in the sun gazing at our outback swamp for nesting Canada geese when the little ... «MassLive.com, May 15»
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All Outdoors: 'Outdoor Fun in Your Watershed' presented at …
It was Elmer, my dementia praecox pup. He had discovered me sleeping, leaned against me, fell asleep and snored. The snore sounded ... «MassLive.com, Apr 15»
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Anne Diebel
During the 1920s, the diagnosis of 'dementia praecox' was being ... today, there are those who believe the term 'dementia praecox' should be ... «London Review of Books, Mar 15»
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Shrinks: A Self-Portrait of a Profession
... of affect (and difficulty in making willed movements), tended to deteriorate into early dementia, and thus were his dementia praecox group. «Mad In America, Mar 15»
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Hunting the Woozle, and Open Dialogue
... based on a then unknown virus infection of the CNS, encephalitits lethargica – turned 'dementia praecox' turned “schizophrenia”… and now, ... «Mad In America, Mar 15»
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On 50th anniversary of Malcolm X assassination, recalling family's …
Louise Little was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of "paranoid condition, probably dementia praecox" and stayed until 1963. "A Judge ... «MLive.com, Feb 15»
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How a New York Psychologist and an Israeli Humanitarian …
... and you fill the bill. Your dripping hatred for the Jew is only exceeded by your ignorance and disgusting,reprehensible dementia praecox. «Algemeiner, Feb 15»

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