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ideation
[i″de-a´shun]the formation of ideas or images. adj., adj idea´tional.
suicidal ideation recurring thoughts of or preoccupation with suicide.
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i·de·a·tion
(ī'dē-ā'shŭn),The formation of ideas or thoughts.
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ideation
Psychiatry The collective representation of thoughts and ideas, recalled from memory, or projected into the future, singly or combined. See Paranoid ideation, Suicidal ideation.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
i·de·a·tion
(ī'dē-ā'shŭn)The formation of ideas or thoughts.
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ideation
The formation of ideas, thought, the use of the intellect.Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005