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catatonic

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Adjective

catatonic

(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.
(informal) Motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.

Translations

Noun

catatonic (plural catatonics)

(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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=p1oI7kkY4FkC&pg=PT125&dq=%22I+thought+of+the+Sleeping+Beauty;+and+I+also+thought,+with+some+foreboding,+of+catatonics%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AuE2U9LVEc7HkQWV84GICw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22I%20thought%20of%20the%20Sleeping%20Beauty%3B%20and%20I%20also%20thought%2C%20with%20some%20foreboding%2C%20of%20catatonics%22&f=false 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.

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