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mental status, the degree of competence shown by a person in intellectual, emotional, psychologic, and personality functioning as measured by psychologic testing with reference to a statistical norm. See also mental status examination. mental 1. pertaining to the mind. 2. pertaining to the chin. mental nerves see Table 14. mental organ an accumulation of apocrine tubular glands in the intermandibular space of swine. mental state includes states of excitement, e.g. frenzy, mania and panic, and depression states, including somnolence, lassitude, narcolepsy, catalepsy, syncope and coma. Delirium is not diagnosable in animals but aimless wandering and headpressing are reminiscent of that mental state in humans. mental status assessment of level of patient awareness or consciousness. mental status See Mini-mental test. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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