| acute schizophrenic episode | (n) schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months), Syn. reactive schizophrenia |
| hebephrenic | (adj) suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior |
| musculophrenic artery | (n) an artery that supplies the abdomen and intercostal muscles, Syn. arteria musculophrenica |
| musculophrenic vein | (n) veins that drain the upper abdominal wall and the lower intercostal spaces and the abdomen, Syn. vena musculophrenica |
| phrenic | (adj) of or relating to the diaphragm |
| phrenic nerve | (n) one of a pair of nerves that arises from cervical spinal roots and passes down the thorax to innervate the diaphragm and control breathing, Syn. nervus phrenicus |
| phrenic vein | (n) either of two veins that drain the diaphragm, Syn. vena phrenica |
| schizophrenic | (n) someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia |
| schizophrenic | (adj) suffering from some form of schizophrenia |
| hebephrenia | (n) a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions, Syn. disorganized type schizophrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia |
| paranoid schizophrenia | (n) 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, Syn. paraphrenic schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenia |
| schizoid | (adj) of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia, Syn. schizophrenic |
| schizophrenia | (n) any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact, Syn. dementia praecox, schizophrenic psychosis, schizophrenic disorder |
| Gastrophrenic | a. [ Gastro- + -phrenic. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Musculophrenic | a. [ L. musculus muscle + E. phrenic. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm; as, the musculophrenic artery. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Phrenic | a. [ Gr. frh`n, freno`s, the midriff, or diaphragm, the heart, the mind: cf. F. phrénique. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the diaphragm; diaphragmatic; as, the phrenic nerve. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| phrenico- | n. [ Gr. frh`n, freno`s, the midriff, or diaphragm, the heart (as the seat of emotions), the mind. ] (Anat.) A combining form meaning, of or pertaining to the diaphragm, the mind, or the brain; frenic. Stedman. [ PJC ] Variants: phreni-, phreno-, phren- |
| Phrenics | n. That branch of science which relates to the mind; mental philosophy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
