HyperDic: disorganized_type_schizophrenia

English > 1 sense of the expression disorganized type schizophrenia:
NOUNstatedisorganized type schizophrenia, hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, disorganized schizophreniaa form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior
English > disorganized type schizophrenia: 1 sense > noun 1, state
MeaningA form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions.
Synonymshebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia
Broaderschizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecoxAny of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
Spanishhebefrenia
Catalanhebefrenia, hebefrènia

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