different between catalepsy vs catatony

catalepsy

English

Alternative forms

catalepsis (dated)

Etymology

From cata- +? -lepsy; ultimately from Ancient Greek ????????? (katál?psis, “act of seizing”), from ??????????? (katalambán?, “I seize”), from ???? (katá, “against”) + ??????? (lambán?, “I take”).

Noun

catalepsy (plural catalepsies)

(pathology) severe bodily condition, described in psychiatric pathology, marked by sudden rigidity, fixation of posture, and loss of contact with environmental conditions
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 190]:
  I was furious with Edgar Allan Poe for writing so accurately about this. His tales of catalepsy and live burial poisoned my childhood, and still killed me.

Derived terms

cataleptic
cataleptoid

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catatonic
catatonia

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catatony

English

Noun

catatony (countable and uncountable, plural catatonies)

Dated form of catatonia.

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