Taber's Medical Dictionary
Cotard delusion
(kō-tar′)
[Jules Cotard, Fr. neurologist, 1840-1889]
A delusion that one does not exist as a person or that he or she is putrefying and that he or she has lost blood or internal organs.
SYN: SEE: delusion of negation; SEE: delirium of negation; SEE: nihilistic delusion
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Cotard Delusion." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/759920/0/Cotard_delusion.
Cotard delusion. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/759920/0/Cotard_delusion. Accessed April 2, 2025.
Cotard delusion. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/759920/0/Cotard_delusion
Cotard Delusion [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2025 April 02]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/759920/0/Cotard_delusion.
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