catatonia
/ˌkætəˈtəʊnɪə/noun
mass noun
1- Psychiatry abnormality of movement and behaviour arising from a disturbed mental state (typically schizophrenia). It may involve repetitive or purposeless overactivity, or catalepsy, resistance to passive movement, and negativism.【精神病学】紧张症, 紧张型精神分裂症。
1.1
- informal a state of immobility and stupor〈非正式〉不动, 木僵, 昏呆。
词源
late 19th cent.: from CATA- 'badly' + Greek tonos 'tone or tension'.