What it means
The root in words about the mind and thinking: mental health, mental status and dementia, a loss of thinking ability. In anatomy, a different Latin word gives the same spelling for the chin, as in the mental nerve and the mentum.
At a glance
| Also written | ment-, mento- |
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Related terms
psych/o
A word root that means mind.
mental status
A person's state of mind at a given time: how alert they are, what they know and how they think, speak and behave.