catatonia

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cat=a=to=ni=a

CIDE DICTIONARY

catatonia, n. [Gr. katatonos, stretching down, depressed, fr. kata` down + to`nos stretching, straining, tone (sound). Stedman.].

 an abnormal behavioral syndrome characterized by stupor, negativism, and muscular rigidity, sometimes alternating with purposeless excitement, and seen most frequently in schizophrenia; called also catatonic schizophrenia.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

catatonia, n.
1 schizophrenia with intervals of catalepsy and sometimes violence.
2 catalepsy.

Derivative

catatonic adj. & n.

Etymology

G Katatonie (as CATA-, TONE)