Flexibilitas Cerea

Classification according to ICD-10
F20.2	Catatonic schizophrenia
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

A waxy flexibility (v. Lat. Flexibilitas "flexibility" and cereus "waxy") describes a "waxy" increasing the muscle tone on passive movement, the passive by a low-effort Beugbarkeit and maintaining the given position is characterized. It occurs above all in certain schizophrenic diseases (e.g. catatonic schizophrenia) and is often associated with stupor and catalepsy as well as other psychomotor disorders.

This symptom is also found in organic brain diseases or under hypnosis.

literature

• Christian Müller (ed.) Encyclopedia of Psychiatry: Collected Essays of the most common psychiatric terms. Springer, 1986. ISBN 3-540-16643-2 . P. 383

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alphabetical index for the ICD-10-WHO version 2019, volume 3. German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI), Cologne, 2019, p. 780
2. ^ Max Lewandowsky : The hysteria. Julius Springer, 1914. p. 40

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