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Definition of Manic-depressive
1. Adjective. Suffering from a disorder characterized by alternating mania and depression.
2. Noun. A person afflicted with manic-depressive illness.
Definition of Manic-depressive
1. Adjective. Exhibiting manic depression. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Manic-depressive
1. 1. Pertaining to a manic-depressive psychosis (bipolar disorder). 2. One suffering from such a disorder. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manic-depressive
Literary usage of Manic-depressive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"The Manic-Depressive Group of Psychoses There is a group of psychoses characterized
hy manic states (manias). by depressive states ..."
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 (1915)
"STATISTICAL STUDY OF HALLUCINATIONS IN THE manic-depressive TYPE OF ... from the
white in the frequency of hallucinations in manic-depressive psychoses, ..."
3. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"C. MANIC DEPRESSIVE INSANITY Just as the occurrence of a single attack of a simple
mania is very unusual, so a typical depressive psychosis as a single ..."
4. Études sur la Queste del saint graal attribuée à Gautier Map by Albert Pauphilet, Colonel Bell Burr, Ernst Ziegler, Douglas Symmers (1921)
"Manic-Depressive Insanity. Under this head are included the recoverable psychoses
heretofore designated as acute mania, subacute mania, simple melancholia ..."
5. Neurosyphilis by Elmer Ernest Southard, Harry Caesar Solomon (1917)
"Differential diagnosis between NEUROSYPHILIS and manic-depressive PSYCHOSIS. ...
Accordingly, the diagnosis of manic-depressive psychosis might well have ..."
6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"The first two cases in the light of our present day viewpoint appear to be
manic-depressive psychoses in which the depressed ..."
7. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"manic-depressive PSYCHOSES. THE general concept of the manic-depressive psychoses
has been an extremely difficult one for some reason or other for many ..."
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