Definitions of hysterical neurosis
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neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
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synonyms:
hysteria
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types:
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anxiety hysteria
a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis
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hysterocatalepsy
hysteria with cataleptic symptoms
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type of:
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neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis
a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
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anxiety hysteria
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