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Catatonia   Listen
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catatonia  n.  (Psychiatry) An abnormal behavioral syndrome characterized by stupor, negativism, and muscular rigidity, sometimes alternating with purposeless excitement, and seen most frequently in schizophrenia; called also catatonic schizophrenia.





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"Catatonia" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Catatonia," he said distastefully. "He spent his life thinking he was smarter than anybody else—smarter, probably, than all the universe. He believed it. He couldn't face the fact that he was wrong. He couldn't stay conscious and not know it. So he's blacked ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster


Words linked to "Catatonia" :   dementia praecox, tone, schizophrenic disorder, tonus, catatonic, catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia, schizophrenia, tonicity


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