| schizophrenia and disorders with psychotic features | Marked disorders of thought (delusions, hallucinations, or other thought disorder accompanied by disordered affect or behaviour), and deterioration from a previous level of functioning. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| schizophrenia, catatonic | A type of schizophrenia characterised by abnormality of motor behaviour which may involve particular forms of stupor, rigidity, excitement or inappropriate posture. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schizophrenia, childhood | An obsolete concept, historically used for childhood mental disorders thought to be a form of schizophrenia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schizophrenia, disorganised | A type of schizophrenia characterised by frequent incoherence; marked loosening of associations, or grossly disorganised behaviour and flat or grossly inappropriate affect that does not meet the criteria for the catatonic type; associated features include extreme social withdrawal, grimacing, mannerisms, mirror gazing, inappropriate giggling, and other odd behaviour. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schizophrenia, paranoid | A chronic form of schizophrenia characterised primarily by the presence of persecutory or grandiose delusions, often associated with hallucination. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schizophrenic | A serious mental illness which results in delusional thought patterns, hallucinations and inappropriate affect. These patients will often suffer from social and occupational difficulty in addition to personal disability. (27 Sep 1997) |
| schizophrenic language | The artificial language of schizophrenic patients - neologisms (words of the patient's own making with new meanings). (12 Dec 1998) |
| schizophrenic psychology | Study of mental processes and behaviour of schizophrenics. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schizophreniform disorder | A disorder whose essential features are identical with those of schizophrenia, with the exception that the duration including prodromal, active, and residual phases is less than six months. (05 Mar 2000) |
| schizophyllum | Fleshy shelf basidiomycetous fungi, family schizophyllaceae, order aphyllophorales, growing on woody substrata. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schizophyte | <biology> One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of Cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not. Origin: Schizo- + Gr. A plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| schizopod | <zoology> One of the Schizopoda. Also used adjectively. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| schizopoda | <zoology> A division of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming. Origin: NL. See Schizo-, and -poda. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| schizopyrenida | An order of ameboid protozoa commonly having a monopodial cylindrically shaped body. Nuclear division is promitotic and most species have a temporary flagellate stage. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schizosaccharomyces | A genus of ascomycetous fungi of the family saccharomycetaceae, order endomycetales comprising the fission yeasts. (12 Dec 1998) |