2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to ''dysthymia''. ¹
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Definition of Dysthymic
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dysthymic
1. Relating to dysthymia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dysthymic
Literary usage of Dysthymic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Depression in Primary Care: Detection and Diagnosi by DIANE Publishing Company (1993)
"The 1-month prevalence for dysthymic disorder without major depressive disorder
was 0.8 percent. The 1-month prevalence for dysthymic disorder with major ..."
2. Joining Forces on Solid-Waste Management: Regionalization Is Working in by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"dysthymic DISORDER -- dysthymic disorder is characterized by chronic, less severe
depressive symptoms than major depression. The depressive symptoms in ..."
3. Treatment of Depression edited by Cynthia D. Mulrow (2000)
"The unipolar depressive disorders are divided into several groups such as major
depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, depression not otherwise specified ..."
4. 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 (1920)
"... episodes did not coincide chronologically with the dysthymic periods; he was
not "fugue- ing " during but after his manic attacks. ..."
5. Cocaine: Pharmacology, Effects, and Treatment of Abuse edited by John Grabowski (1994)
"These independent studies generated very similar results, with depressive
disorders (Major depression, dysthymic disorder, Atypical depression) appearing in ..."
6. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"... cyclothymia to be made, there must be a 2-year period during which the patient
is never without hypomanic or dysthymic symptoms for more than 2 months. ..."
7. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
"... (spinal irritation, pressure in the head, languor, mental constipation, etc.)
at times even dysthymic, with worrying ..."
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