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Definition of Dipsomania
1. Noun. An intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess.
Definition of Dipsomania
1. n. A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.
Definition of Dipsomania
1. Noun. (disease) an addiction to alcohol ¹
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Definition of Dipsomania
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dipsomania
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipsomania
Literary usage of Dipsomania
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"And it is only out of respect to the authorities which have mentioned it as one
form of dipsomania that we have alluded to it in this place, g 218. ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1890)
"Treatment of dipsomania.—Dr. TS Clouston, in an interesting communication on
diseased cravings and paralysed control, lays down the following principles for ..."
3. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"(3) dipsomania proceeds in paroxysmal attacks, and the appetite for strong drink
is absent during the intervals between the attacks. ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... (hysterical and epileptic twilight states; traumatic psychoses; infectious or
toxic deliria). (c) dipsomania ..."
5. Études sur la Queste del saint graal attribuée à Gautier Map by Albert Pauphilet, Colonel Bell Burr, Ernst Ziegler, Douglas Symmers (1921)
"dipsomania.—In certain cases where there is strong hereditary instability, the
disposition to ... dipsomania."
6. A Primer of Psychology and Mental Disease: For Use in Training-schools for by Colonel Bell Burr (1906)
"dipsomania.—In certain cases where there is strong hereditary instability, ...
The disease manifesting itself thus is called dipsomania, a term which is ..."
7. The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology by Lyttleton Forbes Winslow, Winslow, Lyttleton Forbes (1875)
"dipsomania. ATTENTION has again been drawn to the prevalence and increase of
dipsomania in England, and the following letter and circular has lately ..."
8. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"dipsomania.—dipsomania is a term applied to a periodical impulse to drink.
Drinking is only the outward manifestation of the trouble. ..."
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