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Taxonomy vs Catatonic - What's the difference?

taxonomy | catatonic |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and catatonic

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while catatonic is (medicine) a patient in a state of catatonia.

As an adjective catatonic is

(medicine) of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia; (loosely ) motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    catatonic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine) Of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia; (loosely ) motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.
  • * 1967', unnamed doctor in 1967, '' (documentary film), quoted in '''2004 , Jerrold R. Brandell (editor), ''Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients , page 118,
    • However, he was looking a lot more catatonic and depressed before and sometimes we find that on the anti-depressants you remove the depression and uncover the paranoid stuff and we may have to give him larger quantities of tranquilizers just to tone this down.
  • * 2004 , William Meninger, 1012 Monastery Road: A Spiritual Journey , page 19,
    • Further and further he would withdraw from the world, becoming more and more catatonic — withdrawing completely from his hateful world to the only real and secure comfort he had ever known, the womb.
  • * 2006 , David H. Brendel, Healing Psychiatry , page 119,
    • It was plausible that Cara became more catatonic in order to avoid a painful and overwhelming confrontation with terrifying but repressed memories of child abuse.
  • * 2009 , Nicole Chénier-Cullen, I Found My Thrill on Parliament Hill , page 37,
    • The fact that he was not twirling his kiss curl underscored his catatonic' state of mind. I didn't know who was more ' catatonic —Brentwood, the minister, or myself.
  • * 2011 , T. F. Bohn, Dirty Jerry: Faith In the Real World , page 64,
    • A very young Ensign, in his first real contact with combat conditions, was in charge but was almost of no use as he began to hyper-ventilate and became more and more catatonic the closer they got to shore.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) A patient in a state of catatonia.
  • * 1953 , Canadian Journal of Psychology: Revue Canadienne de Psychologie , Volume 7, page 120,
    • An inspection of Table IV shows that the catatonics have the lowest mean reversal score of all the groups.
  • * 1973 , , unnumbered page,
    • I thought of children released from school; I thought of spring-awakenings after winter-sleeps; I thought of the Sleeping Beauty; and I also thought, with some foreboding, of catatonics , suddenly frenzied.
  • * 1991 , Dean Turner, Escape from God: The Use of Religion and Philosophy to Evade Responsibility , page 92,
    • All outward signs suggest that catatonics have ceased being subjects by virtue of having transformed themselves into veritable objects.