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catatonic

/kat-uh-ton-ik/US // ˌkæt əˈtɒn ɪk //

紧张不安,紧张不安的,痉挛,紧张

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having catatonia, a syndrome characterized by muscular rigidity and mental stupor: The schizophrenic remained in a catatonic state.
    • : appearing to be in a daze or stupor; unresponsive: She had the catatonic expression of an avant-garde model.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person having or experiencing catatonia.

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Examples

  • He followed it with Awakenings in 1973, documenting the miraculous recovery and relapse of catatonic patients who began to clap, walk and talk after treatment with a medication for Parkinson’s disease, before fading back into unresponsiveness.

  • Catatonic, he crawls on his hands and knees like an infantilized clown back to his white Lamborghini.

  • Well, were either of you that sorry girl who turned completely catatonic and needed to be carted off to a psychiatric hospital?

  • I thought about my younger siblings, and how I might have been catatonic if I lost them in the same manner.

  • During the 10-minute court proceeding, Holmes looked at times like he was in a catatonic state.

  • I felt he had no obligation to stay in Cleveland, but at least he could have thanked the folks there without appearing catatonic.

  • But I think he is catatonic now; he has lost all touch with the outside.

  • At first, it looked as though Lasser would go the way of Sager and Pederson, ending up as a hopelessly insane catatonic.

  • Two men with rifles plunged into the gas; sighing, they fell to the floor in a catatonic trance.

  • Raecke further calls attention to the manifold similarities which these conditions may show with catatonic processes.

  • Kutner, in a work on the catatonic states in degenerates, describes this condition at length.