Definition of premorbid in English:
premorbid
adjective priːˈmɔːbɪdˌprēˈmôrbəd
Psychiatry Medicine Preceding the occurrence of symptoms of disease or disorder.
Example sentencesExamples
- The most common premorbid psychiatric diagnoses are depression, personality disorders, and substance misuse.
- Depressive symptoms and low self-esteem are premorbid predictors of adolescent headache in girls.
- Six were thought to have evidence of a premorbid personality disorder.
- These assumptions underlie the justification for conventional screening for the premorbid or early stage of a disease.
- Secondly, premorbid personality traits may have predisposed individuals both to developing schizophrenia and to using cannabis.