involutional melancholia
noun Psychiatry.
(formerly) extreme depression related to menopause or, less frequently, the male climacteric.
Origin of involutional melancholia
First recorded in 1905–10
Words nearby involutional melancholia
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invt.,
invulnerable
Medical definitions for involutional melancholia
involutional melancholia
n.
A form of depression that occurs in late middle age, sometimes accompanied by paranoia.