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catatonia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun catatonia has 2 senses
- catatonia(n = noun.state) Array - extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia; Array is a part of catatonia, catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia
- catatonia(n = noun.state) catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia - 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; Array is a kind of dementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis
is a kind of tone, tonicity, tonus
Derived form adjective catatonic1
has parts: catatonia
Derived form adjective catatonic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
catatonia, n. [Gr. katatonos, stretching down, depressed, fr. kata` down + to`nos stretching, straining, tone (sound). Stedman. ].
an abnormal behavioral syndrome characterized by stupor, negativism, and muscular rigidity, sometimes alternating with purposeless excitement, and seen most frequently in schizophrenia; called also catatonic schizophrenia . [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
catatonia, n.
1 schizophrenia with intervals of catalepsy and sometimes violence.
2 catalepsy.
1 schizophrenia with intervals of catalepsy and sometimes violence.
2 catalepsy.
Derivative
catatonic adj. & n.
Etymology
G Katatonie (as CATA-, TONE)
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