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    PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal mannerplay

    Synonyms:

    paranoic type schizophrenia; paranoid schizophrenia; paraphrenia; paraphrenic schizophrenia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("paranoid 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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