Usually means: Depression in elderly due aging.
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  1. involutional melancholia: Infoplease Dictionary
  2. involutional melancholia: Dictionary.com
  3. Involutional melancholia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. involutional melancholia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Involutional melancholia)

noun:  Involutional melancholia or involutional depression is a traditional name for a supposed psychiatric disorder which was thought to affect mainly elderly or late middle-aged people, often in association with paranoia.


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