schizophrenic disorder

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Noun

schizophrenic disorder - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contactdementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic psychosispsychosis - any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distortedborderline schizophrenia, latent schizophrenia - schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophreniacatatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia, catatonia - a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitementdisorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia, hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia - a 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 institutionsparanoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia - 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 manneracute schizophrenic episode, reactive schizophrenia - schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)

schizophrenic disorder

Related to schizophrenic disorder: Schizoaffective disorder

noun

Synonyms for schizophrenic disorder

noun any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact

Synonyms

dementia praecox
schizophrenia
schizophrenic psychosis

Related Words

psychosis
borderline schizophrenia
latent schizophrenia
catatonic schizophrenia
catatonic type schizophrenia
catatonia
disorganized schizophrenia
disorganized type schizophrenia
hebephrenia
hebephrenic schizophrenia
paranoic type schizophrenia
paranoid schizophrenia
paraphrenia
paraphrenic schizophrenia
acute schizophrenic episode
reactive schizophrenia