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Definitions: Catatonia |
CatatoniaNoun1. Extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia. 2. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | Catatonic schizophrenia occurs in two forms: stuporous catatonia and excited catatonia. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: CatatoniaSynonyms: catatonic schizophrenia (n), catatonic type schizophrenia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Catatonia |
| English words defined with "catatonia": catatonic, catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Catatonia" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (catatonia). |
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Health | PCP can cause effects that mimic the full range of symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions, paranoia, disordered thinking, a sensation of distance from one's environment, and catatonia. (references) | |
Although ECT is frequently advocated for treatment of patients with schizophreniform psychoses, schizoaffective disorders, and catatonia, there are no adequate controlled studies to document its usefulness for these disorders. (references) | ||
Just after the first World War, a viral disease, encephalitis lethargica, attacked almost 5 million people throughout the world, and then suddenly disappeared in the 1920s. Known as sleeping sickness in the United States, this disease killed one third of its victims and in many others led to post-encephalitic parkinsonism, a particularly severe form of movement disorder in which some patients developed, often years after the acute phase of the illness, disabling neurological disorders, including various forms of catatonia. (references) | ||
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| "Catatonia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Catatonia" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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catatonia | 151 |
catatonia glue strange | 138 |
catatonia lyrics | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "catatonia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | katatoni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | catatonie (catatonic schizophrenia), spanningswaanzin (catatonic schizophrenia), katatonie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | catatonie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | katatonie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατατονία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | katatónia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | catatonia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 긴장병. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atatoniacay catatonia. (various references) неподвижность (fixedness, fixity, immobility, immovability, quiescence, quiescency, rest, stiffness, stillness). (various references) katatonija. (various references) catatonia, catatonía. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "catatonia": catatonias. (additional references) | |
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"Catatonia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: camattini, Caradonna, catatonical, catatoniqa, citational, Datatronix, katatonia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-i-n-o-t-t" | |
-2 letters: cantata, taction. | |
-3 letters: action, anatto, atonic, attain, cation, intact, octant. | |
-4 letters: actin, antic, attic, canto, coati, cotan, cotta, octan, ontic, tacit, taint, tanto, tinct, titan, tonic. | |
-5 letters: acta, anoa, anta, anti, cain, cant, ciao, cion, coat, coin, coni, icon, into, iota, naoi, nota, otic, taco, tact, tain, tint, toit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-i-n-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: catatonias. | |
+2 letters: lactational. | |
+3 letters: capacitation, coadaptation. | |
+4 letters: abstractional, actualization, anticoagulant, astronautical, capacitations, catatonically, coadaptations, incantational, transactional. | |
+5 letters: actualizations, anticoagulants, capitalization, fantastication, incapacitation, thanatological. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 74 61 74 6F 6E 69 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- - .- - --- -. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a t a t o n i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0074 0061 0074 006F 006E 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376786678681807567 |
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