major depressive episode

(Pronunciation -تلفظ سنیۓ ) US:

Slow

Normal

Noun: major depressive episode

1. major depressive episode
(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

Generic Words:

clinical depression, depression, depressive disorder

Specific Words:

involutional depression, unipolar depression

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