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Definition of Hebephrenic
1. Adjective. Suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior.
Definition of Hebephrenic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hebephrenic
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hebephrenic
1. Relating to or characterised by hebephrenia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hebephrenic
Literary usage of Hebephrenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Études sur la Queste del saint graal attribuée à Gautier Map by Albert Pauphilet, Colonel Bell Burr, Ernst Ziegler, Douglas Symmers (1921)
"In the hebephrenic form the patient develops reserve, shyness, and depression,
is easily embarrassed, shuns company, is deeply religious, devotes himself to ..."
2. A Clinical Manual of Mental Diseases by Francis Xavier Dercum (1917)
"DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF THE SIMPLE OR hebephrenic FORM The symptomatology of
dementia ... hebephrenic ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"These simple demented and hebephrenic types go on to delusional expressions of
a most bizarre type ... These hebephrenic types ? gradually get more and more ..."
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