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Definition: Major Depressive Episode |
Major Depressive EpisodeNoun1. (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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Major Depressive Episode |
| English words defined with "major depressive episode": involutional depression ♦ unipolar depression. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Given its pernicious effects, most agree that a major depressive episode or recurrent depressive illness require treatment in all age groups, including the elderly. (references) | |
Remarkably, a third of widows/widowers meet criteria for a major depressive episode in the first month after the death, and half of these remain clinically depressed 1 year later. (references) | ||
Studies suggest that between 50 and 85 percent of patients with a major depressive episode who seek treatment at university medical centers will have at least one subsequent episode of depression in their lifetime. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
major depressive episode | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "major depressive episode"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | ajormay epressiveday episodeay.(various references) | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6A 6F 72 44 65 70 72 65 73 73 69 76 65 45 70 69 73 6F 64 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101010 01101111 01110010 00100000 01000100 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000101 01110000 01101001 01110011 01101111 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a j o r   D e p r e s s i v e   E p i s o d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006A 006F 0072 0044 0065 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 0069 0076 0065 0045 0070 0069 0073 006F 0064 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767768184238718284718585758871239827585817071 |
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