| paranoid schizophrenia 
 
 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
 • Syn:
 paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, paraphrenia
 • Hypernyms:
 schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox
 
 
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