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MAJOR DEPRESSIVE EPISODE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("major depressive episode" is a kind of...):
clinical depression; depression; depressive disorder (a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention)
Domain category:
psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "major depressive episode"):
involutional depression (a major depressive episode associated with the climacteric)
unipolar depression (a major depressive episode that occurs without the manic phase that occurs in the classic form of bipolar disorder)
