Noun: schizophrenia ,skit-su'free-nee-u
- Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
"The patient's schizophrenia manifested in disorganized speech and behaviour";
- schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox [archaic]
Derived forms: schizophrenias
Type of: psychosis
Encyclopedia: Schizophrenia, paranoid type