psychosis meaning

Noun: psychosis (psychoses)  sI'kowsis

1. Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted

Derived forms: psychoses

See also: psychotic

Type of: mental disease, mental illness, psychopathy

Encyclopedia: Psychosis

[Medicine]
n pl -cho·ses : a serious mental disorder (as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions

• alternating psychosis:    [Medicine]n : BIPO ...
• involutional psychosis:     or involutional m ...
• korsakoff psychosis:    [Medicine]An acqui ...

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1. the occasional patient will develop a frank postoperative psychosis.
2. that they're buried beneath layers of psychosis
3. .. . which developed into a form of violent psychosis ..
4. other or unspecified acute and transient psychosis
5. which were the root cause of her psychosis