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Dementia praecox

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Noun
  1. 1
    schizophrenia dated, uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact wordnet

Etymology

A Latin phrase coined by Arnold Pick in 1891, first used in German and later adopted into English. From the Latin dēmentia (“madness; insanity”) + praecox (“premature; untimely”, whence English precocious), together meaning “untimely madness” or “premature dementia”. Here, dēmentia carries the connotation of senile dementia.

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