catatonia
[`kætə'tonɪə]
n. 症

[医] 症



catatonia
[ noun ]

1. extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia

<noun.state>

2. a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement

<noun.state>

catatonia \cat`a*ton"ia\ n. [Gr. katatonos, stretching down,
depressed, fr. kata` down + to`nos stretching, straining,
tone (sound). --Stedman.] (Psychiatry)
an abnormal behavioral syndrome characterized by stupor,
negativism, and muscular rigidity, sometimes alternating with
purposeless excitement, and seen most frequently in
schizophrenia; called also {catatonic schizophrenia}.
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