Meaning of amentiform | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Shaped like a catkin.
2. Resembling dementia or delirium, including disorganized thinking, incoherence, and memory disturbances.

Examples

“The inflorescence in these associated genera is in (catkins, or) amentiform regimes.”

“Data-Palms (Coryphaceae). Trees; leaves clustered, terminal' infolorescence not in amentiform racemes; stamens hypogynous or perigynous, 6-9-12;”

“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.”

“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 .”

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