schizophrenia: any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal ... wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Dementia praecox ("premature dementia") is a term first used in 1891 in this Latin form by Arnold Pick (1851-1924), a professor of psychiatry at ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_praecox