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’.