hysteria

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The term "hysteria" comes from the Greek word for "womb" and refers to a disease that was once diagnosed almost exclusively in women.

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  1. noun Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.
  2. noun A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability and sometimes by amnesia or a physical deficit, such as paralysis, or a sensory deficit, without an organic cause.

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  1. New Latin : hyster(ic) + -ia1.

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  1. from New Latin hysteria, from Greek ὑστέρα, the womb, uterus (= Latin ūterus, for *udterus (?), masculine, the womb, = Sanskrit udara, neuter, the belly), prob. feminine to υ῎στερος, latter (lower): see hysteresis and uterus.
 

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/hɪsˈtiriə/
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