1) Depressed state 2) Depression 3) Dog in art 4) Mood disorder 5) Severe depression
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Melancholia (from Greek μελαγχολία melancholia `sadness`, literally black bile), also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere, to mourn; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit; wistfulness, from old English wist: intent, or saturnine, was a concept in ancient and pre-modern medicine. Melancholy was one of the f.....
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• (n.) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.
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formerly the psychological condition known as depression. The term now refers to extreme features of depression, especially the failure to take ... [1 related articles]
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Depressive disposition attributed to the influence of one of the humours in pre-scientific thought; melancholia was thought to be particularly characteristic of writers and thinkers. The...
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(mel″an-ko´le-ә) former name for depression; now used particularly to refer to major depressive disorder. adj., melanchol´ic., adj.
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Severe depression. It is a surprise to many, but depression can be a fatal condition. As well as those who commit suicide, people who are severely depressed can neglect themselves to such a degree that they die or die as a result of an accident because they are divorced from the real world. See also humour
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Mel`an·cho'li·a noun [ Latin See
Melancholy .]
(Medicine) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: mel′ăn-kō′lē-ă Definitions: 1. A severe form of depression marked by anhedonia, insomnia, psychomotor changes, and guilt. 2. A symptom occurring in other conditions, marked by depression of spirits and by a sluggish and painful process of thought. Synonyms: melancholy
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Melancholia: Old term for depression.
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n] - extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears
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melancholia A word used through the years to refer to what is now called 'depression'. In the humoral theory of the ancient Greeks it was the temperament caused by an excess of black bile. In modern psychiatric terminology melancholia is used to refer to especially severe forms of major depressive disorders.
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noun extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears
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