Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In medicine, having a single distinct or dominant symptom.
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Examples
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Pimozide in the treatment of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Conversion phenomena were absent, because their mental organization is very simple, in the same way that childhood hysteria is free from conversion symptoms or at the most is monosymptomatic.
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In children, the organization of a psychoneurosis is usually very simple, almost monosymptomatic, and in children too, we often discover these neuroses in the actual process of making.
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