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Definition of Manic-depressive psychosis
1. Noun. A mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression.
Generic synonyms: Affective Disorder, Emotional Disorder, Emotional Disturbance, Major Affective Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Cyclic Disorder, Cyclothymia, Cyclothymic Disorder
Medical Definition of Manic-depressive psychosis
1. Perviously referred to as manic depressive illness, characterised by the occurrence of mania (euphoria) alternating with bouts of depression. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manic-depressive Psychosis
Literary usage of Manic-depressive psychosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Neurosyphilis by Elmer Ernest Southard, Harry Caesar Solomon (1917)
"Differential diagnosis between NEUROSYPHILIS and manic-depressive psychosis.* Case
47. As in other instances (compare Martha Bartlett (21) and Annie Monks ..."
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 (1920)
"Fugues with cyclothymic or manic-depressive psychosis, on the other hand ...
He then developed a typical^ manic phase episode of manic depressive psychosis, ..."
3. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"The greatest difficulty, as between manic-depressive psychosis and ... It must
not be forgotten that the manic-depressive psychosis is by no means a ..."
4. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"Per contra we ordinarily think of manic-depressive psychosis as a disease with
a strong tendency to recovery and to recurrence. ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"She had been a patient five times between 1895 and 1903, each time suffering from
an excited phase of' manic-depressive psychosis, with recovery. ..."
6. A Layman's Handbook of Medicine: With Special Reference to Social Workers by Richard Clarke Cabot (1916)
"By far the commonest of them is the so-called manic-depressive psychosis. Like the
last type, I think this has a close relation to heredity, ..."
7. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1917)
"In addition to their toxic symptoms, they presented the characteristic syndrome
of a manic-depressive psychosis, such as typical flight of ideas, ..."