premorbid
- adjective
- /priːˈmɔːrbɪd/
- Specialized
- The therapist gathered information about the patient's premorbid psychological state to better understand their current condition.
- premorbid language
- premorbid language proficiency
- premorbid personality
Examples
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Does premorbid language proficiency in each language influence post-stroke lexical semantic deficits in each language, and if so, to what extent?
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Additionally, these women may have stronger coping mechanisms and good premorbid psychological adjustment that protect them from high levels of distress when diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Few studies have examined the relationship between premorbid language use and postmorbid language performance in depth.
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We predict that self-rating of premorbid language use can be used to determine post-stroke language presentation.
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Consequently, premorbid proficiency is also discussed, as it is linked to the identification of impairment patterns.
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For premorbid language use, the patient rated both L1 and L2 proficiency as "very good."
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A review of the literature found that the outcome of brain injury may be influenced by factors such as cerebral representation of a secondary language, method of language acquisition, age of acquisition, premorbid language proficiency, and style of learning in individuals.
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A fundamental difficulty in bilingual aphasia assessment is distinguishing the effects of aphasia from potential premorbid proficiency differences across languages.
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Overall, the experiment results strongly suggest that an in-depth, premorbid language history is a vital piece to the evaluation and identification of deficits and language pattern impairments in bilingual aphasics.
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Research shows that a patient's premorbid health can significantly influence their recovery after surgery.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word premorbid comes from the parts pre- 'before' and morbid 'relating to illness', so it describes a person's state or functioning before a disease began.