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PSYCHOTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person afflicted with psychosis
Synonyms:
psycho; psychotic; psychotic person
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("psychotic" is a kind of...):
diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychotic"):
cataleptic (a person suffering from catalepsy)
paranoiac; paranoid (a person afflicted with paranoia)
schizophrenic (someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia)
Derivation:
psychotic (characteristic of or suffering from psychosis)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characteristic of or suffering from psychosis
Classified under:
Similar:
insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Derivation:
psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
psychotic (a person afflicted with psychosis)
Context examples:
NM-MRI signal was found to be a marker of dopamine function in people with schizophrenia and an indicator of the severity of psychotic symptoms in people with this mental illness.
(Neuromelanin-sensitive MRI identified as a potential biomarker for psychosis, National Institutes of Health)
A psychotic disorder characterized by the patient's belief that acquaintances or closely related persons have been replaced by doubles or imposters.
(Capgras Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Psychotic behavior accompanied simultaneously by persecutory or grandiose delusions (paranoia) and hallucinations (schizophrenia); delusional jealousy may be present.
(Paranoid Type Schizophrenia, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
By providing a way to directly and precisely measure the effect of inner speech on the brain, this research opens the door to understanding how inner speech might be different in people with psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia, says Associate Professor Whitford.
(Talking to Ourselves And Voices in Our Heads, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
For patients who had presented with deliberate self-harm, those with a comorbid diagnosis of bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, or a psychotic disorder were more likely to die by suicide than those without these co-occurring diagnoses.
(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)
Symptoms include central nervous system impairment such as as delirium with prominent symptoms of personality change, cognitive dysfunction, disorientation, incoherent speech, and psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, smooth muscle hypotonicity, and altered cardiovascular function.
(Hypercalcemia of Malignancy, NCI Thesaurus)
