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CATATONIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does catatonia mean?
• CATATONIA (noun)
The noun CATATONIA has 2 senses:
1. extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia
2. 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
Familiarity information: CATATONIA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("catatonia" is a kind of...):
tone; tonicity; tonus (the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli)
Holonyms ("catatonia" is a part of...):
catatonia; 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)
Derivation:
catatonic (characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
catatonia; catatonic schizophrenia; catatonic type schizophrenia
Hypernyms ("catatonia" 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)
Meronyms (parts of "catatonia"):
catatonia (extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia)
Derivation:
catatonic (characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs)
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