HEBEPHRENIC SCHIZOPHRENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hebephrenic schizophrenia mean? 

• HEBEPHRENIC SCHIZOPHRENIA (noun)
  The noun HEBEPHRENIC SCHIZOPHRENIA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: HEBEPHRENIC SCHIZOPHRENIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEBEPHRENIC SCHIZOPHRENIA (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

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disorganized schizophrenia; disorganized type schizophrenia; hebephrenia; hebephrenic schizophrenia

Hypernyms ("hebephrenic 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)