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Definition of Schizophrenic

1. Adjective. Suffering from some form of schizophrenia. "Schizophrenic patients"

2. Noun. Someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia.

3. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia.

Definition of Schizophrenic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to schizophrenia. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a person) Afflicted with schizophrenia; having difficulty with perception of reality. ¹

3. Adjective. (slang deprecated) Behaving as if one has more than one personality; wildly changeable. ¹

4. Noun. A person suffering from schizophrenia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Schizophrenic

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Medical Definition of Schizophrenic

1. A serious mental illness which results in delusional thought patterns, hallucinations and inappropriate affect. These patients will often suffer from social and occupational difficulty in addition to personal disability. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schizophrenic

schizopeltid schizopeltids schizopetalon schizophasia schizophasias schizophasic schizophasics schizophonia schizophrene schizophrenes

schizophrenia schizophrenia and disorders with psychotic features schizophreniac schizophreniacs schizophrenias schizophrenic schizophrenic disorder schizophrenic language schizophrenic psychology schizophrenic psychosis

schizophrenics schizophreniform disorder schizophrenogenic schizophyllum schizophyte schizophytes schizopod schizopoda schizopods schizopyrenida

Literary usage of Schizophrenic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"... Acetylcholine Receptor Subunit in Normal and Expression of the oc7 Neuronal Nicotinic Schizophrenic Postmortem Brain S. Leonard,1 Y. Rollins,1 J. Logel ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The Dementia precox Group (The Adolescent Psychoses, the Schizophrenic Psychoses) ... Schizophrenic ..."

3. Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917)
"... work that his standpoint is that, cum grano salis, the conception or the tendency of the Schizophrenic is always accompanied by its opposite ..."

4. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"Steady, reliable workman: a compensated schizophrenic. Economy of social care. Case 71. Ralph Johnson left home at thirty-one and was not heard of for the ..."

5. Hostage Negotiation: A Matter of Life and Death by Defense Information Access Network (1987)
"Paranoid Schizophrenic • Find out if they have been on medic"" ' ""so, if they have their i 1th them. If you can g< ce their medic ay see an ..."

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