Definition of dementia praecox Dementia praecox
de•men•tia prae•cox
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What does dementia praecox mean?
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| dementia praecox - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact | ||
| schizophrenia, 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 | ||
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- dementia praecox (Noun)
schizophrenia.
