2. Adjective. characterized by involution ¹
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Definition of Involutional
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Involutional
1. Relating to involution. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Involutional
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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