hebephrenia
/hee-buh-free-nee-uh/US // ˌhi bəˈfri ni ə //UK // (ˌhiːbɪˈfriːnɪə) //
鹤壁市,鹤顶红,鹤壁,鹤岗市
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Psychiatry.
- : a type of schizophrenia characterized by emotionless, incongruous, or silly behavior, intellectual deterioration, and hallucinations, frequently beginning insidiously during adolescence.
Examples
Hebephrenia is always a disease of adolescence and never occurs during adult life.
The subjects of hebephrenia are peculiarly liable to tubercular infection and many die of phthisis.
Let us recall also the mental troubles, the psychoses designated by the name hebephrenia.
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