| schizoid | Socially isolated, withdrawn, having few (if any) friends or social relationships; resembling the personality features characteristic of schizophrenia, but in a milder form. See: schizoid personality. Origin: schizo(phrenia), + G. Eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000) |
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| schizoid personality | A disorder characterised by social withdrawal, emotional coldness or aloofness, and indifference to praise or criticism from others. (05 Mar 2000) |
| schizoid personality disorder | An individual who is isolated, cold and indifferent. (27 Sep 1997) |
| schizoidism | A schizoid state; the manifestation of schizoid tendencies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| schizomycete | A member of the class Schizomycetes; a bacterium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| schizomycetes | <biology> An order of Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the Supplement. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. To split +, -, a fungus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| schizomycetic | Relating to or caused by fission fungi (bacteria). (05 Mar 2000) |
| schizomycosis | Any schizomycetic or bacterial disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| schizonemertea | <zoology> A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. Origin: NL. See Schizo-, and Nemertes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| schizont | A sporozoan trophozoite (vegetative form) that reproduces by schizogony, producing a varied number of daughter trophozoites or merozoites. See: meront, segmenter. Synonym: agamont, segmenting body. Origin: schizo-+ G. On (ont-), a being (05 Mar 2000) |
| schizonticide | An agent that kills schizonts. Origin: schizont + L. Caedo, to kill (05 Mar 2000) |
| schizonychia | Splitting of the nails. Origin: schizo-+ G. Onyx, nail (05 Mar 2000) |
| schizopelmous | <zoology> Having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate, and the flexor hallicus going to the first toe only. Origin: Schizo- + Gr. The sole of the foot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| schizophasia | The disordered speech (word salad) of the schizophrenic individual. Origin: schizo-+ G. Phasis, speech (05 Mar 2000) |
| schizophrenia | <psychiatry> A mental disorder or heterogeneous group of disorders (the schizophrenias or schizophrenic disorders) comprising most major psychotic disorders and characterised by disturbances in form and content of thought (loosening of associations, delusions and hallucinations) mood (blunted, flattened or inappropriate affect), sense of self and relationship to the external world (loss of ego boundaries, dereistic thinking and autistic withdrawal) and behaviour (bizarre, apparently purposeless and stereotyped activity or inactivity). The definition and clinical application of the concept of the concept of schizophrenia have varied greatly. The DSM III R criteria emphasise marked disorder of thought (delusions, hallucinations or other thought disorder accompanied by disordered affect or behaviour), deterioration from a previous level of functioning and chronicity (duration of more than 6 months), thus excluding from this classification conditions referred to by others as acute, borderline, simple or latent schizophrenia. Originally called dementia praecox and characterised as a psychosis with adolescent onset and a chronic course ending in deterioration. The term schizophrenia was introduced by Bleuler because neither early onset nor terminal deterioration is an essential feature, he emphasised the splitting and lack of personality integration seen in the disorder. Origin: Gr. Phren = mind (18 Nov 1997) |