See Also: schizopod(medicine)

melancholia (iou) and schizopod (medicine)


melancholia (iou)



melancholia noun. E17.
[Late Latin: see MELANCHOLY noun.]
Medicine. = DEPRESSION 3b. Also (gen.), melancholy, depression.
Guardian A..bitter-sweet operetta, which fuses Scandinavian melancholia and introversion with Manhattan stringency, and cynicism.
melancholiac adjective & noun (a person) affected with melancholia M19.

schizopod (medicine)


schizopod
<zoology> One of the Schizopoda. Also used adjectively.

Source: Websters Dictionary