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amentiform en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin amentum + -form.

Meanings

1. Shaped like a catkin.
   • The inflorescence in these associated genera is in (catkins, or) amentiform regimes. 1835, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Outlines of Botany, page 396:
   • Data-Palms (Coryphaceae). Trees; leaves clustered, terminal' infolorescence not in amentiform racemes; stamens hypogynous or perigynous, 6-9-12; 1854, Arthur Adams, A Manual of Natural History for the Use of Travellers, page 513:
2. Resembling dementia or delirium, including disorganized thinking, incoherence, and memory disturbances.
   • This would be in line with our findings that, in the French-Canadian multiparas (sometimes after the ninth or twelfth delivery), the amentiform - delirious syndromes and depressive episodes were relatively more often observed . 1974, Confinia Psychiatrica - Volumes 17-19, page 119:
   • a. 100 oer cent in acute and subacute amentiform conditions; b. 81 per cent in acute and subacute stupor; C. 71 per cent in acute and subacute hebephrenia; d. 68 per cent in acute and subacute paranoid-hallucinatory conditions. 1956, Arthur M. Sackler, The Great Physiodynamic Therapies in Psychiatry, page 87:

Forms

Translations (1)

pt amentiforme (shaped like a catkin)