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    HEBEPHRENIC SCHIZOPHRENIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutionsplay

    Synonyms:

    disorganized schizophrenia; disorganized type schizophrenia; hebephrenia; hebephrenic schizophrenia

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    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("hebephrenic schizophrenia" is a kind of...):

    dementia praecox; schizophrenia; schizophrenic disorder; schizophrenic psychosis (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)

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