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Catatonic: 1. Characterized by marked motor abnormalities including immobility (catalepsy or stupor), excessive motor activity (purposeless agitation), extreme negativism, mutism, posturing or stereotyped movements,
echolalia, and/or echopraxia.
2. A person with catatonia or catatonic schizophrenia.
Described by Karl Kahlbaum (1874) as catatonia, the term was subsumed under Eugen Bleuler 's concept of schizophrenia in 1911. It has recently been classified as catatonic ...
Definition of CATATONIC. 1: of, relating to, being, resembling, or affected by schizophrenia characterized especially by a marked psychomotor disturbance that may ...
noun Psychiatry . a syndrome seen most frequently in schizophrenia, characterized by muscular rigidity and mental stupor, sometimes alternating with great excitement ...
a state of muscular rigidity and stupor, sometimes found in schizophrenia [C20: New Latin, from German Katatonie, from cata-+ -tonia, from Greek tonos tension] catatonic
Catatonic disorders are a group of symptoms characterized by disturbances in motor (muscular movement) behavior that may have either a psychological or a ...