psychosis

BrE /ˈsaɪ.kə.sɪs/ AmE /ˈsaɪ.kə.sɪs/

noun en → es

1 MENTAL DISORDER [singular] C1

a serious mental illness that causes a person to lose touch with reality and experience delusions or hallucinations

psicosis, trastorno mental grave

  • suffer from psychosis

Collocations schizophrenia-related psychosis · psychotic episode

  • She was admitted to the hospital because of a psychotic episode.

    Fue ingresada en el hospital debido a un episodio psicótico.

2 BEHAVIOR [singular] C1

extremely strange or violent behavior that is caused by mental illness

comportamiento extraño o violento, actitud psicótica

  • show signs of psychosis

Collocations psychotic behavior · psychotic state

  • The patient's psychotic behavior was disturbing to the other residents.

    El comportamiento psicótico del paciente era perturbador para los demás residentes.