melancholia attonita

[ ə-tŏn′ĭ-tə ]

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The catatonic state in schizophrenia that is characterized by immobility and muscular rigidity.melancholia stuporosa

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Melancholia also produced a scandal at Cannes, but for another reason altogether.
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But she continues: “What is the relation between a sign and melancholia?”
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The distinction between melancholia and non-melancholia is a key part of your argument.
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He also has a taste for dark fugues, nocturnes, and symphonies of melancholia.
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No one who sees Melancholia can deny that that role has arrived for Dunst.
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In young people particularly, homesickness is a not uncommon cause of melancholia.
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In melancholia, as a rule, sleep is very much disturbed, and at times patients do not sleep at all.
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Nearly three-fourths of the patients who suffer from melancholia will recover from a first attack under proper care.
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In the agitated form of melancholia, the patient is often quiet only when under the influence of a sleeping-potion.
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Then it became gradually limited to those forms of insanity which differed from melancholia.
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