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melancholia
A word used through the years to refer to what is now called "depression".

In the humoral theory of the ancient Greeks it was the temperament caused by an excess of black bile. In modern psychiatric terminology melancholia is used to refer to especially severe forms of major depressive disorders.

This entry is located in the following units: cholo-, chol-, chole- (page 3) melano-, melan-, mela-, melen- (page 1)
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(Greek: grief; melancholia)
(Latin: sad, gloomy, melancholia)