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səˈfri noun
1.
Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
2.
a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements.
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| 1. | catatonia hebephrenia See paranoia any of a group of psychotic disorders characterized by progressive deterioration of the personality, withdrawal from reality, hallucinations, delusions, social apathy, emotional instability, etc |
| 2. | informal behaviour that appears to be motivated by contradictory or conflicting principles |
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Word Origin & History
schizophrenia
1912, from Mod.L., lit. "a splitting of the mind," from Ger. Schizophrenie, coined in 1910 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), from Gk. skhizein "to split" (see shed (v.)) + phren (gen. phrenos) "diaphragm, heart, mind," of unknown origin. Slang shortening schizo
first attested 1920s as an adj., 1945 as a noun.
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Medical Dictionary
schizophrenia schiz·o·phre·ni·a (skĭt'sə-frē'nē-ə, -frěn'ē-ə)
n.
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 often associated with dopamine imbalances in the brain and defects of the frontal lobe and may have an underlying genetic cause.
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Science Dictionary
| schizophrenia (skĭt'sə-frē'nē-ə, skĭt'sə-) Pronunciation Key
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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Cultural Dictionary
schizophrenia [(skit-suh-free-nee-uh, skit-suh-fren-ee-uh)]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.
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Example sentences
Schizophrenia today is a chronic, frequently disabling mental disorder that affects about one per cent of the world's population.
Unlike depression and mania, which are disorders of mood, schizophrenia is a disorder of thought.
The use of chlorpromazine as a treatment for schizophrenia soon followed.
In that respect, it may also shed light on diseases such as schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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