Noun catatonia has 2 senses
- catatonia - extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia
--1 is a kind of tonicity, tonus, tone
--1 is a part of catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia, catatonia
- catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia, catatonia - 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 is a kind of schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox
--2 has parts: catatonia
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