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

1 sense of catatonic schizophrenia

Sense 1
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)