Medicine
- Depression (mood), a state of low mood and aversion to activity
- Some mood disorders such as major depressive disorder and dysthymia, that feature depressed mood
- Depression (kinesiology), an anatomical term of motion
- Depression (physiology), a reduction in a biological variable or the function of an organ
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