Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

praecox

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English

Syllables: prae-cox
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Dementia praecox.

Uncountable

noun

Someone suffering from dementia praecox.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Psychiatrists did not know the etiology of dementia praecox, but their working assumption was that the brains of praecox patients exhibited "demonstrable microscopic cortex changes" as well as "gross anatomical anomalies" […]"
"Occasionally I would run across mild praecoxes who were through their acute episode and became amenable to treatment […]."

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

precox (alternative)

Phrases

ejaculation praecox ejaculatio praecox

Frequently Paired Words

ejaculation praecox ejaculatio praecox

Questions

What does praecox mean?: Dementia praecox.

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