a mental illness in which a person becomes unable to link thought, emotion and behaviour, leading to withdrawal from reality and personal relationships Topics Illnessc2精神分裂症;早发性痴呆 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chronic
- paranoid
- have
- suffer from
- develop
- …
- patients
Word Originearly 20th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek skhizein ‘to split’ + phrēn ‘mind’.