(pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.

plural of schizophrenia

(psychiatry) A form of schizophrenia that is accompanied by delusions, either of persecution, grandeur or jealousy.

(pathology) A form of schizophrenia marked by disorganized behavior and speech as well as inappropriate emotional responses or affect.

plural of paranoid schizophrenia

(historical, medicine) A diagnostic category used in Soviet Russia to describe a supposedly slowly progressive form of schizophrenia affecting minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic individuals.

(psychiatry) A postulated mental disorder categorized by the presence of two or more symptoms of mental illness such as anxiety, hysteria, and phobic or obsessive-compulsive neuroses.

Alternative spelling of schizophrenialike

Of or relating to schizophrenia; schizophrenic.

An individual with schizophrenia.