| hysterical deafness | Hearing loss without evidence of organic cause or malingering; often follows severe psychic shock. Synonym: functional deafness, hysterical deafness. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| hysterical gait | A variety of bizarre gaits seen with hysteria-conversion reaction; usually the foot is dragged or pushed ahead, instead of lifted, while walking; frequently the foot is held dorsiflexed and inverted. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical joint | A simulation of joint disease, with symptoms of pain, possibly swelling, and impairment of motion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical neurosis | <psychiatry> A conversion of emotional stress or mental disturbance into a physical symptom. Examples include paralysis, blindness, inability to speak or another sudden debilitating problem for no reason evident through testing. (27 Sep 1997) |
| hysterical paralysis | A psychosomatic numbness of a limb sometimes to the point of paralysis. See: hysteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical polydipsia | Excessive fluid consumption resulting from a disorder of the personality, without demonstrable organic lesion. Synonym: hysterical polydipsia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical pregnancy | <obstetrics, psychiatry> A condition in which some signs and symptoms suggest pregnancy, although the woman is not pregnant. Synonym: hysterical pregnancy, pseudocyesis, pseudopregnancy, spurious pregnancy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical psychosis | A psychotic disturbance with predominantly hysterical symptoms, a mental disorder resembling conversion hysteria but of psychotic severity, a brief reactive psychosis, often culture bound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical spinal neuralgia | Simulating Pott's disease, following a trauma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical syncope | Fainting due to, or to avoid, emotional stress. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical torticollis | Torticollis believed to be psychosomatic in aetiology. See: hysteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical tremor | Usually a coarse, irregular tremor, limited to one limb. Synonym: psychogenic tremor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hysterical vertigo | A sensation of dizziness, as from a whirling motion, whose aetiology is psychosomatic. (05 Mar 2000) |