schizophrenia : Idioms & Phrases


borderline schizophrenia

  • noun schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia
    borderline schizophrenia.
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catatonic schizophrenia

  • noun 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 excitement
    catatonia; catatonic schizophrenia.
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catatonic type schizophrenia

  • noun 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 excitement
    catatonia; catatonic schizophrenia.
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disorganized schizophrenia

  • noun 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 institutions
    hebephrenia; disorganized schizophrenia; disorganized type schizophrenia.
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disorganized type schizophrenia

  • noun 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 institutions
    hebephrenia; disorganized schizophrenia; disorganized type schizophrenia.
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hebephrenic schizophrenia

  • noun 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 institutions
    hebephrenia; disorganized schizophrenia; disorganized type schizophrenia.
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latent schizophrenia

  • noun schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia
    borderline schizophrenia.
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paranoic type schizophrenia

  • noun 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 manner
    paranoid schizophrenia; paraphrenia; paranoic type schizophrenia.
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paranoid schizophrenia

  • noun 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 manner
    paranoid schizophrenia; paraphrenia; paranoic type schizophrenia.
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paraphrenic schizophrenia

  • noun 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 manner
    paranoid schizophrenia; paraphrenia; paranoic type schizophrenia.
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reactive schizophrenia

  • noun schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)
    acute schizophrenic episode.
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