praecox

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praecox

noun precox

historical, uncountable Dementia praecox. Psychiatrists did not know the etiology of dementia praecox, but their working assumption was that the brains of praecox patients exhibited "demonstrable microscopic cortex changes" as well as "gross anatomical anomalies" […]
uncountable Someone suffering from dementia praecox. Occasionally I would run across mild praecoxes who were through their acute episode and became amenable to treatment […].

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@misc{praecox_2026,
  title = {praecox},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/praecox},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}