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
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
Most were schizophrenics and epileptics at the now-defunct State Hospital for Mental Diseases in Howard, Rhode Island, where Delgado’s occasional collaborator Hannibal Hamlin was a staff psychiatrist.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2017
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
