paranoic type schizophrenia

Definitions of paranoic type schizophrenia
  1. noun
    a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner
    synonyms: paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia
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    type of:
    dementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis
    any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
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