different between catatonic vs catalepsy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæ.t??t?n.?k/

  Rhymes: -?n?k

Adjective

catatonic (comparative more catatonic, superlative most catatonic)

1. (medicine) Of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia.
   • 1967, unnamed doctor in 1967, Frederick Wiseman (director), Titicut Follies (documentary film), quoted in 2004, Jerrold R. Brandell (editor), Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients, page 118:

     However, he was looking a lot more catatonic and depressed before and sometimes we find that on the anti-depressants you remove the depression and uncover the paranoid stuff and we may have to give him larger quantities of tranquilizers just to tone this down.
2. (informal) Motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.

Translations

Noun

catatonic (plural catatonics)

1. (medicine) A patient in a state of catatonia.
   • 1953, Canadian Journal of Psychology: Revue Canadienne de Psychologie, Volume 7, page 120,

     An inspection of Table IV shows that the catatonics have the lowest mean reversal score of all the groups.

   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, unnumbered page,

     I thought of children released from school; I thought of spring-awakenings after winter-sleeps; I thought of the Sleeping Beauty; and I also thought, with some foreboding, of catatonics, suddenly frenzied.

Anagrams

• toccatina

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