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κλινοφιλία

English translation: clinophilia

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Greek term or phrase:κλινοφιλία
English translation:clinophilia
Entered by: istros

12:52 Nov 6, 2007
Greek to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Psychology / ελληνικά/αγγλικά
Greek term or phrase: κλινοφιλία
"...τα λεγόμενα αρνητικά συμπτώματα, όπως η αδράνεια, η κλινοφιλία, η ανηδονία...."

(Σύμπτωμα της σχιζοφρένειας, επιθυμία διαρκούς ανάπαυσης σε κρεβάτι))
istros
Local time: 17:54
clinophilia
Explanation:
clinophilia

1. The love of beds.
2. The love of going to bed.
3. In psychiatry: Tendency to maintain a reclining position. See on page 9 of the linked pdf document about Idiopathic Hypersomnia: [1]
4. somnephilia (the love of going to sleep and/or dream)

During the day, fatigue and
distress are such that patients try to escape
by taking refuge in clinophilia, spending
hours in bed, mistakenly convinced that
they are sleeping but actually affected by a
symptom called agrypnagnosia or nonper-
ception of being awake.
http://www.servier.com/pro/download/neurologie/WPA/WPA_33.pd...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clinophilia
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Katerina Athanasaki
Local time: 17:54
Grading comment
Ήταν στις επιλογές μου η συγκεκριμένη μετάφραση αλλά δεν μπορούσα να το διασταυρώσω. Ευχαριστώ.
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clinophilia


Explanation:
clinophilia

1. The love of beds.
2. The love of going to bed.
3. In psychiatry: Tendency to maintain a reclining position. See on page 9 of the linked pdf document about Idiopathic Hypersomnia: [1]
4. somnephilia (the love of going to sleep and/or dream)

During the day, fatigue and
distress are such that patients try to escape
by taking refuge in clinophilia, spending
hours in bed, mistakenly convinced that
they are sleeping but actually affected by a
symptom called agrypnagnosia or nonper-
ception of being awake.
http://www.servier.com/pro/download/neurologie/WPA/WPA_33.pd...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clinophilia

Katerina Athanasaki
Local time: 17:54
Native speaker of: Greek
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Ήταν στις επιλογές μου η συγκεκριμένη μετάφραση αλλά δεν μπορούσα να το διασταυρώσω. Ευχαριστώ.

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