Definition of Involutional

1. Adjective. of or pertaining to involution ¹

2. Adjective. characterized by involution ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Involutional

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Involutional

1. Relating to involution. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Involutional

involuntariness
involuntary
involuntary guarding
involuntary muscle
involuntary muscles
involuntary nervous system
involuntary trust
involute
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involution cyst
involution form
involution of the uterus
involutional (current term)
involutional depression
involutional melancholia
involutional psychosis
involutions
involutory
involve
involved
involved with(p)
involvedly
involvedness
involvement
involvements
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Literary usage of Involutional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Psychiatry by Joseph Rogues de Fursac, Aaron Joshua Rosanoff (1916)
"involutional MELANCHOLIA. * THE causes of this disease are not well known. Neuropathic heredity has been found in about 60% of the cases. ..."

2. 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 (1914)
"The elementary symptoms of involutional paranoia are those given in the previous summary. 4. Its course is gradual with perhaps exacerbations until it ..."

3. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1905)
"There is, however, some evidence to show that the involutional depression may indeed form part and parcel of the larger group of maniaco-depressive insanity ..."

4. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"Indeed, instances of transitional depression are occasionally observed in which the passage from a typical recurrent affect depression to the involutional ..."

5. The Breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment by John Blair Deaver, Joseph McFarland (1917)
"Of course both may be the reverse; the involutional disturbance may be localized and the cancer diffused ..."

6. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1918)
"Relative to the involutional psychoses, the insane descendants of patients with involutional melancholia or involutional psychosis in general, ..."

7. Manual of Psychiatry by Joseph Rogues de Fursac, Aaron Joshua Rosanoff (1916)
"involutional MELANCHOLIA. * THE causes of this disease are not well known. Neuropathic heredity has been found in about 60% of the cases. ..."

8. 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 (1914)
"The elementary symptoms of involutional paranoia are those given in the previous summary. 4. Its course is gradual with perhaps exacerbations until it ..."

9. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1905)
"There is, however, some evidence to show that the involutional depression may indeed form part and parcel of the larger group of maniaco-depressive insanity ..."

10. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"Indeed, instances of transitional depression are occasionally observed in which the passage from a typical recurrent affect depression to the involutional ..."

11. The Breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment by John Blair Deaver, Joseph McFarland (1917)
"Of course both may be the reverse; the involutional disturbance may be localized and the cancer diffused ..."

12. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1918)
"Relative to the involutional psychoses, the insane descendants of patients with involutional melancholia or involutional psychosis in general, ..."

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