phreno-, phren-, phreni-, phrenico-, phrenic-, -phrenia, -phrenic, -phrenically

1. Severe paranoid illness without deterioration of other cognitive or affective processes.
2. The most common usage of the term today is to denote a disorder characterized by phantastic, absurd, paralogical delusions without deterioration, dementia, or loss of contact with reality except in the area of the delusional system.
3. In paranoid schizophrenia, on the other hand, there is deterioration and splitting off of many of the psychic functions, while in paranoia the delusions are so logical, at least on the surface, as to appear to be little more than an extension of the premorbid personality.

1. Mental derangement in general.
2. A reference to inflammation of the diaphragm, formerly thought to be invariably accompanied by delirium; hence applied to delirium supposed to be so produced.

Referring to the pericardium and the diaphragm.

1. Pain in the diaphragm.
2. An acute mental distress; psychalgia; melancholia.

An obsolete term for mental retardation; feeble-mindedness.

An obsolete term for atrophy of the brain.

An obsolete term for encphalitis.

1. Delirious; mentally deranged; insane.
2. Affected with excessive excitement or enthusiasm, especially in religious matters; furious; frantic; fanatic.

An obsolete term for phrenology and hypnosis.

A reference to the treatment and cure of mental disorders.

1. Referring to or affecting the diaphragm; diaphragmatic.
2. Pertaining to, or relating to, the mind.
3. That branch of science which relates to the mind; psychology.

Surgical removal or destruction of a section of a phrenic nerve; formerly carried out as an alternative to phrenicotomy.

Crushing of the phrenic nerve with a clamp to produce temporary paralysis of the diaphragm.

Relating to the diaphragm and the stomach.

Relating to the diaphragm and the glottis; denoting a spasm involving the diaphragm and the vocal cords.