Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of insanity characterized by periods of acute mania and melancholia, and by cataleptoid and epileptoid states.
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Examples
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The posture and expression remind us at once of the katatonia which is symptomatic of dementia præcox and other stuporose and melancholiac conditions in adult life.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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Filed under: Buddies, Music | Tagged: car battery, faith divides us death unites us, garden hose, katatonia, paradise lost
Paradise Lost + Katatonia + Engel, King Tuts, Glasgow 30/10/09 « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009
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Filed under: Buddies, Music | Tagged: car battery, faith divides us death unites us, garden hose, katatonia, paradise lost | 2 Comments »
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Filed under: Buddies, Music | Tagged: car battery, faith divides us death unites us, garden hose, katatonia, paradise lost | 2 Comments »
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We recognise also the rheumatic type of child with a tendency to chorea, and in contrast to this a type with listlessness, immobility, and katatonia.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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Kahlbaum, it is true, under the influence of the older tradition, when he erected katatonia into a separate disorder (not always accepted in later times), regarded prolonged and excessive masturbation as a chief cause, but I am not aware that he ever asserted that it was a sole and sufficient cause in a healthy organism.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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It's absolutely grievous to say the words 'quit katatonia', even worse to make it happen.
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It's absolutely grievous to say the words 'quit katatonia', even worse to make it happen.
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The doctor had tested him for katatonia by sticking pins into him; he had made no reaction, and had not closed his eye when the doctor made to prick that too.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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Kiernan, one of the earliest writers on katatonia, was careful to point out that masturbation was probably as much effect as cause of the morbid nervous condition. [
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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