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Definition of Depressives
1. depressive [n] - See also: depressive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depressives
Literary usage of Depressives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"The current report of the Government Hospital for the Insane, shows 752 admissions
during the year 1913-1914, with 45 manic-depressives, that is 5.9 per ..."
2. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1918)
"His own case causes him to be certain that the clearly uncomplicated manic
depressives are followed by manic depressives. All authors agree that idiocy, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... hi clinical trials in in-patient and out-patient depressives (9). A second
narcotic antagonist, ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
"Slowness in the cancellation and distraction tests is characteristic of depressives.
The association-test shows no abnormalities except with Bu. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"In his 9 manic-depressive ascendants he finds SO per cent, manic-depressives in
the descendants, while in none of his families with manic-depressive ..."
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