paraphrenic schizophrenia

Noun paraphrenic schizophrenia has 1 sense

• paraphrenic schizophrenia(n = noun.state) paranoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenia - 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;
is a kind of dementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis