Medical term:
metonymy
metonymy
[mĕ-ton´ĭ-me]a disturbance of language seen in schizophrenia in which an inappropriate but related term is used instead of the correct one.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
me·ton·y·my
(mĕ-ton'i-mē)Imprecise or circumscribed labeling of objects or events, characteristic of the language disturbance of people with schizophrenia; e.g., the patient speaks of having had a "menu" rather than a "meal."
[meta- + G. onyma, name]
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metonymy
(mĕ-tŏn′ĭ-mē) [Gr. meta, after, beyond, over, + onyma, name]1. In rhetoric, a figure of speech in which one word is used for another, related one (e.g., “crown” for “king, ” “queen, ” “monarch, ” or “sovereign”).
2. In psychiatry, mental confusion exhibited in some schizophrenic disorders in which an imprecise but loosely related term is used for the correct one (e.g., “rifle” for “war, ” or “apple” for “ball”).
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