| NOUN | state | paranoid schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, paraphrenia | a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy) |
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| Meaning | A form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal / normal manner. | |
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| Synonyms | paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, paraphrenia | |
| Broader | schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox | Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact |
| Catalan | parafrènia | |
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