different between catatonia vs catalepsy

English

Alternative forms

• catatony (dated)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (katátonos).

Noun

catatonia (usually uncountable, plural catatonias)

1. A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
2. (informal) A frozen, unresponsive state, as of electronic equipment.
   • 1998, David Drake, Thomas T. Thomas, Crisis of Empire Book I: An Honorable Defense

     “Relay that!” Thwaite shouted. Somewhere on the bridge a hand closed over a relay and dropped the AIDs into an electronic catatonia.

Derived terms

• catatonic

Translations

Italian

Etymology

cata- +? -tonia

Noun

catatonia f (plural catatonie)

1. catatonia

Portuguese

Noun

catatonia f (plural catatonias)

1. (psychiatry) catatonia (a severe condition characterised by a tendency to remain in a rigid state)

Spanish

Noun

catatonia f (plural catatonias)

1. catatonia

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)

1. (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

Related terms

• catatonic
• catatonia

Translations

See also

• catalepsy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia