schizophrenia

schiz·o·phre·ni·a  (skts-frn-, -frn-)

n.

1. Any of a group of psychotic disorders usually characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioral, or intellectual disturbances. Schizophrenia is associated with dopamine imbalances in the brain and defects of the frontal lobe and is caused by genetic, other biological, and psychosocial factors.

2. A situation or condition that results from the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic qualities, identities, or activities: the national schizophrenia that results from carrying out an unpopular war.

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schizophrenia

Noun

1. a psychotic disorder characterized by withdrawal from reality, hallucinations, or emotional instability

2. Informal behaviour that seems to be motivated by contradictory or conflicting principles [Greek skhizein to split + phrēn mind]

schizophrenic adjn

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schizophrenia  (skts-frn-, skts-)

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.

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schizophrenia

a psychotic condition marked by erratic behavior, withdrawal from reality, and intellectual and emotional deterioration. Also called dementia praecox. — schizophrenic, n., adj.

See also: Insanity

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

schizophrenia - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact dementia praecox, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis psychosis - any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted 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; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement disorganized 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 institutions paranoic 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 manner acute schizophrenic episode, reactive schizophrenia - schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)

Translations

schizophrenia [skɪtsəˈfriːnɪə] n → esquizofrenia

schizophrenia [skɪtsəˈfriːnɪə] n → schizophrénie f

schizophrenia [skɪtsəˈfriːnɪə] n → Schizophrenie f

schizophrenia [skɪtsəˈfriːnɪə] n → schizofrenia

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schizophrenia

n schizophrenia [skitsəˈfriːniə]

a form of insanity in which the patient becomes severely withdrawn from reality, has delusions etc. skisofrenieفُصام أو إنْفِصام الشَّخْصِيَّهшизофренияschizofrenieskizofrenidie Schizophrenieσχιζοφρένειαesquizofreniaskisofreeniaاسكيزوفرنيjakomielitautischizophrénieסְכִיזוֹפרֶניָהखंडित मनस्कताshizofrenijatudathasadássisofreniageðklofischizofrenia精神分裂症정신 분열증šizofrenijašizofrēnijapenyakit skizofreniaschizofrenieschizofrenischizofreniaesquizofreniaschi­zofrenieшизофренияschizofréniashizofrenijašizofrenijaschizofreniโรคจิตประเภทลืมตัวşizofreni, içe kapanım hastalığı精神分裂症шизофреніяانشقاق نفسیbệnh tâm thần phân liệt精神分裂症

adj ˌschizoˈphrenic [-ˈfre-]

skisofreniesمُنْفَصِم الشَّخْصِيَّهшизофрениченschizofrenickýskizofrenschizophrenσχιζοφρενής, σχιζοφρενικόςesquizofrénicoskisofreenilineمبتلا به اسكيزوفرنيjakomielitautinenschizophrèneסְכִיזוֹפרֶנִיमनोविदलताshizofreničartudathasadásosgilameð geðklofaschizofrenico精神分裂症の정신 분열증의šizofreniškasšizofrēnisksmenghidap penyakit skizofreniaschizofreenschizofrenschizofrenicznyesquizofrénicoschizo­frenicшизофреническийschizofrenickýshizofreničenšizofreničanschizofrenซึ่งมีอาการโรคจิตที่มีบุคลิกภาพแบบแตกแยกşizofrenili kimse患精神分裂症的шизофренічнийنفسی انشقاق کا مریضthuộc bệnh tâm thần phân liệt患精神分裂症的