Definition of dementia praecox in English:

dementia praecox

noun ˈpriːkɒksdəˌmen(t)SHə ˈprēˌkäks

archaic term for schizophrenia
Example sentencesExamples
- He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France.
- Or is she suffering from what German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin called dementia praecox, the antecedent of today's schizophrenia?
- Schizophrenia, which used to be called early dementia or dementia praecox, is a devastating mental illness.
- Emil Kraepelin proposed links between dementia praecox and hormones in 1892.
- Among the illnesses he described were manic-depression and dementia praecox, a disorder renamed schizophrenia (split mind) by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler in 1911.

Origin

Latin, literally 'early insanity'.

Definition of dementia praecox in US English:

dementia praecox

noundəˌmen(t)SHə ˈprēˌkäks

dated term for schizophrenia
Example sentencesExamples
- Among the illnesses he described were manic-depression and dementia praecox, a disorder renamed schizophrenia (split mind) by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler in 1911.
- Emil Kraepelin proposed links between dementia praecox and hormones in 1892.
- Or is she suffering from what German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin called dementia praecox, the antecedent of today's schizophrenia?
- He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France.
- Schizophrenia, which used to be called early dementia or dementia praecox, is a devastating mental illness.

Origin

Latin, literally ‘early insanity’.

单词	dementia praecox
释义	Definition of dementia praecox in English: dementia praecox noun ˈpriːkɒksdəˌmen(t)SHə ˈprēˌkäks archaic term for schizophrenia Example sentencesExamples He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France. Or is she suffering from what German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin called dementia praecox, the antecedent of today's schizophrenia? Schizophrenia, which used to be called early dementia or dementia praecox, is a devastating mental illness. Emil Kraepelin proposed links between dementia praecox and hormones in 1892. Among the illnesses he described were manic-depression and dementia praecox, a disorder renamed schizophrenia (split mind) by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler in 1911. Origin Latin, literally 'early insanity'. Definition of dementia praecox in US English: dementia praecox noundəˌmen(t)SHə ˈprēˌkäks dated term for schizophrenia Example sentencesExamples Among the illnesses he described were manic-depression and dementia praecox, a disorder renamed schizophrenia (split mind) by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler in 1911. Emil Kraepelin proposed links between dementia praecox and hormones in 1892. Or is she suffering from what German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin called dementia praecox, the antecedent of today's schizophrenia? He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France. Schizophrenia, which used to be called early dementia or dementia praecox, is a devastating mental illness. Origin Latin, literally ‘early insanity’.
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