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schizophrenia
[ skit-suh-free-nee-uh, -freen-yuh ]
noun
- Psychiatry. a spectrum of mental disorders characterized by emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, hallucinations, or a combination of any of these symptoms. Formerly dementia praecox.
- Sometimes Offensive. a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements.
schizophrenia
/ ˌɪٲəʊˈڰːɪə /
noun
- any of a group of psychotic disorders characterized by progressive deterioration of the personality, withdrawal from reality, hallucinations, delusions, social apathy, emotional instability, etc See catatonia hebephrenia paranoia
- informal.behaviour that appears to be motivated by contradictory or conflicting principles
schizophrenia
- Any of a group of psychiatric disorders characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, hallucinations, and psychotic behavior. Schizophrenia is associated with an imbalance of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain and may have an underlying genetic cause.
schizophrenia
- A form of psychosis marked by a strong tendency to dissociate oneself from reality. Schizophrenia is often characterized by hallucinations , delusions , and inappropriate reactions to situations. The word schizophrenia is often used informally as well as scientifically to indicate a split personality .
Other Word Forms
- ··· [skit-s, uh, -, fren, -ik], adjective noun
- non···· adjective
- un···· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of schizophrenia1
Word History and Origins
Origin of schizophrenia1
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Example Sentences
A mum with paranoid schizophrenia who killed her six-year-old son while believing she was being "instructed by a demonic force" has been given an indefinite hospital order.
High-ventilation breathing is not recommended for people with epilepsy, lung diseases or asthma that limit breathing, high blood pressure or cardiovascular problems, and schizophrenia or a history of psychosis.
Bynes’ attorney denied that the former actor had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Fleet, who was 21 at the time, had been released from a secure psychiatric unit 10 days before the incident after being diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Doctors say that he developed schizophrenia behind bars and tried to harm others and himself.
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