major depressive episode (n)

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type n
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def (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
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Hypernym depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression
Domain of synset - TOPIC psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine
Hyponym involutional depression; unipolar depression
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Member of this domain - TOPIC psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine
Hyponym depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression
Hypernym involutional depression; unipolar depression

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