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Medical Science and Discovery

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Snake Inside My Stomach: Delusional Zoopathy with Cenesthopathic Hallucinations in Chronic Schizophrenia: A Case Report

Medical Science and Discovery March 30, 2026 Venugopal Vijay Ratnam, Suranjita Mazumdar

Objective: Somatic delusions are common in schizophrenia; however, delusional zoopathy—defined as the conviction that macroscopic animals (e.g., reptiles or mammals) inhabit the body—is rare and phenomenologically distinct from classical delusional infestation (Ekbom syndrome), which typically involves microscopic organisms. We report a 35-year-old married woman from Assam with chronic...