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unitary psychosis

unitary psychosis noun: according to 19th-century German psychiatry, a single underlying disease process of which all psychoses were surface variations.

Noun

unitary psychosis (countable and uncountable, plural unitary psychoses)

  1. (historical) According to 19th-century German psychiatry, a single underlying disease process of which all psychoses were surface variations.

Forms of unitary psychosis

pluralunitary psychoses

Origin of unitary psychosis

Calque of German Einheitspsychose

Questions about unitary psychosis

What does unitary psychosis mean?
Unitary psychosis means according to 19th-century German psychiatry, a single underlying disease process of which all psychoses were surface variations.
What part of speech is unitary psychosis?
Unitary psychosis is a noun.
What is the plural of unitary psychosis?
The plural of unitary psychosis is unitary psychoses.

Words near unitary psychosis in the dictionary

  1. unitary groups
  2. unitary matrices
  3. unitary matrix
  4. unitary matrixes
  5. unitary psychoses
  6. unitary psychosis
  7. unitary state
  8. unitary states
  9. unitasker
  10. unitaskers
  11. unitasking

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