Engelsk substantiv: major depressive episode | |||
1. | major depressive episode (om tilstand) (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 | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | clinical depression, depression, depressive disorder | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | involutional depression, unipolar depression | ||
Overordnet kategori | psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology | ||