clinical depression

English

Noun

clinical depression (countable and uncountable, plural clinical depressions)

  1. Depression that reaches clinical significance (diagnosis and treatment).
    Hyponyms: persistent depressive disorder, PDD, dysthymia; major depressive disorder, MDD
    • 2005, Dwight Evans, Dennis S. Charney, Lydia Lewis, The Physician’s Guide to Depression and Bipolar Disorders, →ISBN, page 69:
      We next consider the cognification of interpersonal dysfunctions in treating clinical depression.
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