| anxiety | <psychology> The unpleasant emotional state consisting of psychophysiological responses to anticipation of unreal or imagined danger, ostensibly resulting from unrecognised intrapsychic conflict. Physiological concomitants include increased heart rate, altered respiration rate, sweating, trembling, weakness and fatigue, psychological concomitants include feelings of impending danger, powerlessness, apprehension and tension. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| anxiety attack | An acute episode of anxiety. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anxiety disorders | Disorders in which anxiety (persistent feelings of apprehension, tension, or uneasiness) is the predominant disturbance. (12 Dec 1998) |
| anxiety dream | A dream (or nightmare) in which morbid fear and anxiety form an important part. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anxiety hysteria | Hysteria characterised by manifest anxiety. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anxiety neurosis | Chronic abnormal distress and worry to the point of panic followed by a tendency to avoid or run from the feared situation, associated with overaction of the sympathetic nervous system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anxiety reaction | A sudden bout of anxiety that is often accompanied by the features of hyperventilation (tingling around mouth and in fingertips, rapid breathing, faintness or fainting). (27 Sep 1997) |
| anxiety syndrome | <syndrome> The constellation of autonomic nervous system signs and symptoms accompanying the apprehension of danger and dread. See: anxiety. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anxiety tension state | A milder form of an anxiety disorder. See: anxiety disorders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anxiety, castration | Anxiety due to fantasied injuries to or loss of the genitals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| anxiety, separation | Anxiety experienced by an individual upon separation from a person or object of particular significance to him. (12 Dec 1998) |
| anxiolysis | Sedation or hypnosis used to reduce anxiety, agitation or tension. (16 Dec 1997) |
| anxiolytic | Medication used to reduce anxiety, agitation or tension. Origin: Gr. Lysis = dissolution (16 Dec 1997) |
| anxious delirium | Delirium in which the predominating symptom is an incoherent apprehension or anxiety. (05 Mar 2000) |