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word salad /word sal·ad/ (werd sal´ad) a meaningless mixture of words and phrases characteristic of advanced schizophrenia.

word salad

See schizophasia.

Word salad

Speech that is so disorganized that it makes no linguistic or grammatical sense.

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word salad,

a jumble of words and phrases that lacks logical coherence and meaning, often characteristic of disoriented individuals and persons with schizophrenia. See also jargon aphasia.

word salad [werd sal´ad]

an incoherent jumble of words and neologisms, such as that observed in advanced schizophrenia; called also schizophasia.

word salad

Psychiatry A mixture of neologisms, words, and phrases that lack comprehensive meaning or logical coherence; WSs are characterized by loosening of associations, shifting of topics that may progress to near incoherence, and a lack of logical connection; WSs are typical of disordered thought processes–eg, schizophrenia. Cf Witzelsucht.

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