Meaning & use
premorbid
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Relating to a person's condition, behavior, or functioning before the onset of a disease or disorder.
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Doctors compared his current memory to his premorbid level of functioning.
The patient's premorbid personality showed no signs of the anxiety that developed later.
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Frequently used in psychiatry and neuropsychology to distinguish symptoms of an illness from a person's baseline traits before it began.
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pre-existing
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