Words: paranoid schizophrenia paranoic type schizophrenia paraphrenic schizophrenia paraphrenia
Part of speech: n
Definition: 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