schizophrenia vs catatonic schizophrenia

catatonic schizophrenia vs schizophrenia

schizophrenia and catatonic schizophrenia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
schizophrenia	Yes	No	No	No
catatonic schizophrenia	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, catatonic schizophrenia is a hyponym of schizophrenia; that is, catatonic schizophrenia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than schizophrenia:

schizophrenia: any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
catatonic schizophrenia: a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement

Other hyponyms of schizophrenia include borderline schizophrenia, latent schizophrenia, catatonia, catatonic type schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia, hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia, acute schizophrenic episode, reactive schizophrenia.

schizophrenia (noun)	catatonic schizophrenia (noun)
any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact	a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement

Difference between schizophrenia and catatonic schizophrenia

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