Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun catatonia

2 senses of catatonia

Sense 1
catatonia -- (extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia)
       => tonicity, tonus, tone -- (the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity")

Sense 2
catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia, catatonia -- (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)
       => 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)