DISORGANIZED SCHIZOPHRENIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does disorganized schizophrenia mean? • DISORGANIZED SCHIZOPHRENIA (noun)
The noun DISORGANIZED SCHIZOPHRENIA has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: DISORGANIZED SCHIZOPHRENIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DISORGANIZED SCHIZOPHRENIA (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
disorganized schizophrenia; disorganized type schizophrenia; hebephrenia; hebephrenic schizophrenia
Hypernyms ("disorganized schizophrenia" is a kind of...):
dementia praecox; schizophrenia; schizophrenic disorder; schizophrenic psychosis (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)
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