||Par`a*noi"a (?), n. (Med.)
A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual
impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by
delusious of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal
tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked
crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks."
Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration,
and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.
||Par`a*noi"a (păr`&adot;*noi"&adot;),
n. [NL., fr. Gr. para`noia.]
(Med.) Mental derangement; insanity.
||Par`a*noi"a (?), n. (Med.)
A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual
impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by
delusious of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal
tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked
crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks."
Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration,
and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.
