amentiform

comparative more amentiform · superlative most amentiform

1. biologyShaped like a catkin.

   The inflorescence in these associated genera is in (catkins, or) amentiform regimes.

   1835, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Outlines of Botany, page 396

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   Data-Palms (Coryphaceae). Trees; leaves clustered, terminal' infolorescence not in amentiform racemes; stamens hypogynous or perigynous, 6-9-12;

   1854, Arthur Adams, A Manual of Natural History for the Use of Travellers, page 513

2. human sciencesResembling dementia or delirium, including disorganized thinking, incoherence, and memory disturbances.

   a. 100 oer cent in acute and subacute amentiform conditions; b. 81 per cent in acute and subacute stupor; C. 71 per cent in acute and subacute hebephrenia; d. 68 per cent in acute and subacute paranoid-hallucinatory conditions.

   1956, Arthur M. Sackler, The Great Physiodynamic Therapies in Psychiatry, page 87

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   This would be in line with our findings that, in the French-Canadian multiparas (sometimes after the ninth or twelfth delivery), the amentiform - delirious syndromes and depressive episodes were relatively more often observed .

   1974, Confinia Psychiatrica - Volumes 17-19, page 119