involutional

involutional
/in'veuh looh"sheuh nl/, adj.
1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of involutional melancholia: involutional symptoms.
n.
2. a person who suffers from involutional melancholia.
[1905-10; INVOLUTION + -AL1]

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