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precox

precox is the alternative form of praecox.

Meaning of praecox

Noun

praecox (uncountable)

  1. (historical) 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" […]1995, Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion
  2. Someone suffering from dementia praecox.
    • Occasionally I would run across mild praecoxes who were through their acute episode and became amenable to treatment […].1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 7

Phrases with precox

Questions about precox

What is precox the alternative form of?
Precox is the alternative form of praecox.

Words near precox in the dictionary

  1. precovered
  2. precoveries
  3. precovering
  4. precovers
  5. precovery
  6. precox
  7. precoxa
  8. precoxae
  9. precoxal
  10. precrack
  11. precracked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: precox (page history and authors); praecox (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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