stuporous

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From this time until the later part of April, 1903, he had alternating periods of stupor and lucidity, with amnesia for the stuporous states.

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  1. Characterized by stupor; having stupor as a conspicuous symptom. [Recent.]
  2. Stuporous insanity a psychoneurosis, usually of young adults, characterized by extreme apathy and dementia, ensuing usually on conditions of exhaustion from shock or otherwise, and generally issuing in recovery after a few weeks or months. Also called acute dementia, primary dementia, primary curable dementia, and anergic stupor. Stuporous insanity being a recoverable form, dementia would more properly include cases of traumatism resembling it. Alien. and Neurol., IX. 458.

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