PSYCHOTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychotic mean? 

• PSYCHOTIC (noun)
  The noun PSYCHOTIC has 1 sense:

1. a person afflicted with psychosis

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOTIC used as a noun is very rare.

• PSYCHOTIC (adjective)
  The adjective PSYCHOTIC has 1 sense:

1. characteristic of or suffering from psychosis

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHOTIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person afflicted with psychosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

psycho; psychotic; psychotic person

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)

• PSYCHOTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic of or suffering from psychosis

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 

The adult form is characterized by psychotic symptoms and dementia.

(Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

A psychotic syndrome caused by damage to the brain by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1).

(Korsakoff Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic.

(Neurotic Depression, NCI Thesaurus)

A quinoline derivate and atypical anti-psychotic agent.

(Aripiprazole, NCI Thesaurus)

It results in liver failure, neurologic, and psychotic manifestations.

(Hepatolenticular Degeneration, NCI Thesaurus)

This leads to reduction in psychotic symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions.

(Perphenazine, NCI Thesaurus)

It may be broadly classified as a psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition.

(Organic Delusional Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Hypofunction of NMDA type of neurotransmission is believed to play a major role in pathophysiology of schizophrenia, therefore, administration of D-serine and subsequent activation of NMDA receptors may alleviate psychotic tendencies.

(D-Serine, NCI Thesaurus)

This leads to a reduction in psychotic symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions.

(Chlorpromazine, NCI Thesaurus)

Most cases are seen in the context of a psychotic state.

(Capgras Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)