Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun acute_schizophrenic_episode
1 sense of acute schizophrenic episode
Sense 1
acute schizophrenic episode, reactive schizophrenia -- (schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months))
=> schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox -- (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)