catatonic type schizophrenia
- noun
- /ˌkætəˈtɑnɪk taɪp skɪtsəˈfrɛnɪə/
- Archaic
:
esquizofrenia de tipo catatónico
- The patient with catatonic type schizophrenia remained motionless for hours, barely responding to external stimuli.
Examples
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Treatment for catatonic type schizophrenia requires careful management of both its immobile and agitated phases.
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Periods of extreme excitement sometimes interrupted the otherwise silent stupor characteristic of catatonic type schizophrenia.
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He was diagnosed with catatonic type schizophrenia last year.
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The symptoms of catatonic type schizophrenia can be very severe.
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The patient with catatonic type schizophrenia remained motionless for hours, barely responding to external stimuli.
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Periods of extreme excitement sometimes interrupted the otherwise silent stupor characteristic of catatonic type schizophrenia.
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Treatment for catatonic type schizophrenia requires careful management of both its immobile and agitated phases.
Synonyms
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A form of serious mental illness with long periods of very little movement or speech
How Immobile
- Archaic
- Archaic
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
catatonic + type + schizophrenia
The meaning is compositionally transparent: 'catatonic' describes immobility/stupor, 'type' signals a subtype, and 'schizophrenia' names the disorder, so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it denotes a form of schizophrenia marked by catatonia. This is a common noun-modifier pattern in English (and many other languages), making the sense readily predictable rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Catatonic type schizophrenia gets its name from the word catatonic, which makes you imagine someone frozen like a statue and not moving for a long time. That's why this 'type' of schizophrenia means long periods of 'immobility' or 'stupor', sometimes broken by short moments of 'agitation'.