| paranoid schizophrenia | (n) a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner, Syn. paraphrenic schizophrenia, paranoic type schizophrenia, paraphrenia |