sane

sane

 [sān]

sound in mind.

Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

sane

(sān),

Denoting sanity.

[L. sanus]

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sane

(sān)

adj. saner, sanest

Of sound mind; mentally healthy.

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sane′ly adv.

sane′ness n.

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sane

Normal, compos mentis, not nuts

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SANE

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McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

sane

(sān)

Of sound mind; mentally healthy.

[L. sanus]

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

sane

Of sound mind. This is a legal rather than a medical term, as in the case of ‘insanity’. The lawyers are forced by their trade to assume that a person must either be sane or insane; the doctors are not so sure.

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