Usually means: Early onset of schizophrenic disorders.
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  1. dementia praecox: Merriam-Webster
  2. dementia praecox: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dementia praecox: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dementia praecox: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dementia praecox: Vocabulary.com
  6. dementia praecox: Wiktionary
  7. dementia praecox: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. dementia praecox: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. dementia praecox: Dictionary.com
  10. Dementia praecox: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. dementia praecox: Rhymezone
  12. dementia praecox: FreeDictionary.org
  13. dementia praecox: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. dementia praecox: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dementia praecox: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dementia praecox: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  4. dementia praecox: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (dated, psychiatry) schizophrenia

Similar:
schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, paralytic dementia, pseudopseudodementia, presbyophrenia, taboparalysis, psychosis, prison psychosis, paraschizophrenia, more...

Opposite:
schizophrenia, sanity, lucidity

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Similar:
schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, paralytic dementia, pseudopseudodementia, presbyophrenia, taboparalysis, psychosis, prison psychosis, paraschizophrenia, more...

Opposite:
schizophrenia, sanity, lucidity



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