Word Meanings - HYSTERIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of
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A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits. Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing, and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the throat. The affection presents the most varied symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment alone.
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- DIMINISH
To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - CONTROLLABLENESS
Capability of being controlled. - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - REFLEXITY
The state or condition of being reflected. - AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - DIMINISHER
One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke . - EXCITABILITY
The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited; - EXAGGERATOR
One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. L. Horner. - REFLEXLY
In a reflex manner; reflectively. - PATIENTLY
In a patient manner. Cowper. - CORRESPONDINGLY
In a corresponding manner; conformably. - CONTROLLABILITY
Capability of being controlled; controllableness. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - REFLEXIBILITY
The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light. Sir I. Newton. - AFFECTIONED
1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak. - AFFECTIONATED
Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. - AFFECTIONATE
1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating - EXAGGERATIVE
Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration. "Exaggerative language." Geddes. "Exaggerative pictures." W. J. Linton. -- Ex*ag"ger*a*tive*ly, adv. Carlyle. - NERVOUSLY
In a nervous manner. - COMPATIENT
Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck. - OVERPATIENT
Patient to excess. - OMNIPATIENT
Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle. - OUT-PATIENT
A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it. - REDIMINISH
To diminish again. - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - IMPOWER
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