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Noun: schizophrenic disorder
  1. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
    "The patient's schizophrenic disorder manifested in disorganized speech and behaviour";
    - schizophrenia, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox [archaic]

Derived forms: schizophrenic disorders

Type of: psychosis