English > schizophrenic disorder: 1 sense > noun 1, stateMeaning | Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact. |
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Synonyms | schizophrenia, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox |
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Narrower | acute schizophrenic episode, reactive schizophrenia | schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months) |
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borderline schizophrenia, latent schizophrenia | schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia |
catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia, catatonia | A form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods |
hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia | A form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior |
paranoid schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, paraphrenia | A form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy) |
Broader | psychosis | Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted |
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Spanish | esquizofrenia |
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Catalan | esquizofrènia |
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