分ぶん裂れつ病びょう

noun

schizophrenia

Obsolete abbreviation of 精神分裂病 (seishin bunretsubyō). Replaced by 統合失調症 (tōgō shitchō shō) in 2002; this term is now considered outdated and potentially stigmatizing.

See also: 精神分裂病

• 「分ぶん裂れつ病びょう」はかつて精せい神しん分ぶん裂れつ病びょうの略りゃく称しょうとして使つかわれたが、現げん在ざいは「統とう合ごう失しっ調ちょう症しょう」と呼よばれる。

  "Bunretsubyō" was once used as an abbreviation for seishin bunretsubyō, but it is now called "tōgō shitchō shō" (schizophrenia).