schizo-, schiz-

A personality disorder characterized by eccentric thought, speech, and behavior and social withdrawal; similar to but not as severe as schizophrenia.

A schizophrenic type or a group of psychotic disorders, often beginning after adolescence or in young adulthood, characterized by fundamental alterations in concept formations, with misinterpretation of reality, and associated affective, behavioral and intellectual disturbances in varying degrees and mixtures.

A schizoid personality type in which an individual is prone to seclusiveness, emotional rigidity, introversion, and unsocial behavior.

A personality type who is characterized by unusual patterns of speech and behavior and by social withdrawal.

A form of an animal arising from an asexual process of reproduction, in the manner of germination or fission: Schizozoite can occur in some worms.

Schizozoite can develop as a stage in the life cycle of certain sporozoan protozoa resulting from merogony (the development of a portion of an ovum).

A tumor having a tubular structure.