acute schizophrenic episode

1. 1.

   schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)

   Synonymsreactive schizophrenia

   Broaderschizophrenia

Questions about acute schizophrenic episode

What does acute schizophrenic episode mean?

acute schizophrenic episode means "schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)".

What is another word for acute schizophrenic episode?

Close synonyms include reactive schizophrenia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acute schizophrenic episode a common word?

acute schizophrenic episode is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.