Herero Insignia
Klar: Clear | Entlüftung: Ventilation | Zündung: Ignition | Vorstufe: Initial stage | Haupstufe: Main stage
Hebephrenic Scizophrenia
A form of schizophrenia in which affective changes are prominent, delusions and hallucinations fleeting and fragmentary, behaviour irresponsible and unpredictable, and mannerisms common. The mood is shallow and inappropirate and often accompanied by giggling or self-satisfied, self-absorbed smiling, or by a lofty manner, grimaces, mannerisms, pranks, hypochondriacal complaints, and reiterated phrases. Thought is disorganized and speech rambling and incoherent. There is a tendency to remain solitary, and behaviour seems empty of purpose and feeling. This form of schizphrenia usually starts between the ages of 15 and 25 years and tends to have a poor prognosis because of the rapid development of “negative” symptoms, particularly flattening of affect and loss of volition.
In addition, disturbances of affect and volition, and thought disorder are usually prominent. Hallucinations and delusions may be present but are not usually prominent. Drive and determination are lost and goals abandoned, so that the patient’s behaviour becomes characteristically aimless and empty of purpose. A superficial and manneristic preoccupation with religion, philosophy, and other abstract themes may add to the listener’s difficulty in following the train of thought.
ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1992.
Ululation
A long, wavering, high-pitched sound resembling the howl of a dog or wolf with a trilling quality. It is produced by emitting a high pitched loud voice accompanied with a rapid movement of the tongue and the uvula.
Uvular
Consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants.
Plosive
A consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract.
Apparatchik
An agent of the governmental or party “apparat” (apparatus) that held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility. Members of the “apparat” were frequently transferred between different areas of responsibility, usually with little or no actual training for their new areas of responsibility. Thus, the term apparatchik, or “agent of the apparatus” was usually the best possible description of the person’s profession and occupation.
Weltschmerz
World-weariness
Heisenberg Situation
In physics, the formulation of quantum mechanics where the operators (observables and others) are time-dependent and the state vectors are time-independent. It stands in contrast to the Schrödinger picture in which operators are constant and the states evolve in time. The two pictures only differ by a time-dependent basis change.