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nounpraecox (uncountable)
alternative precox
- historicaluncountablehuman sciencesDementia praecox.
Psychiatrists did not know the etiology of dementia praecox, but their working assumption was that the brains of praecox patients exhibited "demonstrable microscopic cortex changes" as well as "gross anatomical anomalies" […]
1995, Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion - uncountableSomeone suffering from dementia praecox.
Occasionally I would run across mild praecoxes who were through their acute episode and became amenable to treatment […].
1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 7
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