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hysterical neurosis

DEFINITIONS OF: hysterical neurosis

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n neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions

Synonyms:
hysteria
Types:
anxiety hysteria
a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis
hysterocatalepsy
hysteria with cataleptic symptoms
Type of:
neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis
a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
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