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DISORGANIZED TYPE SCHIZOPHRENIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
disorganized schizophrenia; disorganized type schizophrenia; hebephrenia; hebephrenic schizophrenia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("disorganized type 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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