PARAPHRENIC SCHIZOPHRENIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

paranoic type schizophrenia; paranoid schizophrenia; paraphrenia; paraphrenic schizophrenia

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("paraphrenic 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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