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Noun: schizophrenia  `skitsu'freeneeu
  1. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
    - schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox

Derived forms: schizophrenias

See also: schizophrenic

Type of: psychosis

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