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catatonia

[ UK /kˌætɐtˈə‍ʊni‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
  2. extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia

How To Use catatonia In A Sentence

  • There are varying degrees of affectedness, ranging from near catatonia to individuals that can function independently. At My Table
  • No matter how good his material is, the audience wear him down with a mixture of catatonia and contempt.
  • He was able, thus, to disentangle true catatonia, true hebephrenia and the deteriorating paranoid process, all of which led to a catastrophic outcome, from the benign clinical patterns which were forced into those groups due to an overindulgent criterion.
  • He kept thinking there must be something that he had not tried, that her catatonia was a condition he could change if he could just figure out what was needed. Morgawr
  • Awakening from catatonia and diving directly into high-decibel pleading, recriminations, and rants is no mean feat.
  • This was a performance so static that it bordered on catatonia.
  • In 1934, Stauder coined the term lethal catatonia to characterize an acute, intense excitement state, combining features of mania and delirium, that was associated with fever often high and catatonic signs. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
  • Experienced and knowledgeable clinicians, however, can further refine this and other amorphous categories (e.g., hallucinosis secondary to coarse brain disease) by their awareness of the scientific literature, which always runs ahead of the official nosology and offers unofficial, but clinically useful, choices (e.g., catatonia as a treatment-responsive syndrome separate from schizophrenia; various frontal and parietal lobe syndromes). The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
  • We are dealing with life-shattering illnesses, such as melancholic depression, mania and catatonia.
  • The detachment he'd evidenced at his homecoming party had deepened into catatonia. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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