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asyndesis (medicine)


asyndesis


1. Rarely used term for a mental defect in which separate ideas or thoughts cannot be joined into a coherent concept.

2. A breaking up of the connecting links in language, said to be characteristic of the language disturbance of schizophrenics.

Origin: G. A-priv. + syn, together, + desis, binding