schizophrenic
adjective
of or relating to schizophrenia.
schizophrenics
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pluralof schizophrenic.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Increased lactate levels and reduced pH in postmortem brains of schizophrenics: medication confounds.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
Based on a controversial early 1960s psychiatric case study, “Three Christs” stars Peter Dinklage, Walton Goggins and Bradley Whitford as institutionalized paranoid schizophrenics, each of whom believes himself to be Jesus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2020
The scan didn’t prove that Hinckley had schizophrenia, experts said—but this sort of brain atrophy was more common among schizophrenics than among the general population.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2019
But I’ve lived to be older than my father, his father, and my great grandfather, despite coming from a long line of manic depressives and schizophrenics going back to the Mayflower.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2018
And, indeed, there may be something wrong with the apparatus in schizophrenics; they have, it is said, an unfamiliar odor, recently attributed to trans-3- methylhexanoic acid, in their sweat.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
