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English noun: major depressive episode

1. major depressive episode (state) (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


Broader (hypernym)clinical depression, depression, depressive disorder


Narrower (hyponym)involutional depression, unipolar depression


Domain categorypsychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology









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