disorganized schizophrenia
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Related to disorganized schizophrenia: hebephrenic schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, residual schizophrenia, undifferentiated schizophrenia
dis·or·ga·nized schiz·o·phre·ni·a
a severe form of schizophrenia characterized by the predominance of incoherence, blunted, inappropriate, or silly affect, and the absence of systematized delusions.
Synonym(s): hebephrenic schizophrenia
disorganized schizophrenia
n.
See hebephrenia.
dis·or·ga·nized schiz·o·phre·ni·a
(dis-ōr'găn-īzd skits'ŏ-frē'nē-ă)A severe form of schizophrenia characterized by the predominance of incoherence; blunted, inappropriate, or silly affect; and the absence of systematized delusions.