Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An inferior light-colored-kind of trepang.
- n. A Japanese incense-burner or censer, usually of bronze, iron, or pottery.
Wiktionary
- n. psychology A delusional syndrome found in Malay and southern Chinese populations, characterized by a belief that the subject's penis will retract into the abdomen and cause death.
Etymologies
- Malaysian, Indonesian for "turtle." (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This was an epidemic of the culture-bound illness known as koro.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria
“As was the case the case with witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, in Singapore the notion of koro was deeply rooted in cultural beliefs.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria
“The government, media and the local medical association cooperated in spreading the word that koro was not real, no one was dying from penis shrinkage, and there was nothing to be afraid of.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria
“Chinese for forty dollars the picol; the white, or gray, called koro, is worth no more than twenty.”
“In some Southeast Asian cultures, men have been known to experience what is called amok, an episode of murderous rage followed by amnesia; men in the region also suffer from koro, which is characterized by the debilitating certainty that their genitals are retracting into their bodies.”
“One of the most popular is the classic pig koro which is shaped like a pig and www. teijg.com Went to Mos Burger on Oyafuko Dori in Tenjin Fukuoka, Japan.”
“One of the most popular is the classic pig koro which is shaped like a pig and provides openings at the front and back for smoke ventilation.”
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“One of the most popular is the classic pig koro which is shaped like a pig and”
“While absurd and with no basis whatsoever in human physiology, the epidemic of koro provided a culturally acceptable means to relieve powerful and frightening emotions.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘koro’.
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Hopi, Tewa and Zuni words
poems in a word - another form of haikus
u'pik'ayap'ona, kwayinanne, shilhnanne, u'ky'ahayan el'a, xayeh, wenima, kuaua, kimo, tesuque, tso'ya, shalako, apilhalu and 116 more...
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Pleasing to the Mind
crunch, tookie, splunge, necronomicon, perambulist, bizarro, fuck, assonance, euphony, cacophony, onomatopoeia, syntax and 57 more...
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What ails you?
painter's colic, hatter's shakes, dustman's shoulder, housemaid's knee, washerwoman's itch, devonshire colic, the king's evil, boanthropy, lypemania, grease-pox, opodeldoc, venice treacle and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for koro.
bilby "Forty-three years ago, a strange series of events unfolded on the island of Singapore. Hundreds of men rushed to the hospitals of the island with the terrifying belief that their penises were shrinking. Each feared that if his penis shrank away completely, he would die. Some came with lucky red strings tightly wrapped around their penises to prevent the lethal disappearance. Others had clamps holding their wayward organs in place. Most often it was a firm grasp of a hand, their own or a frightened family member's, that prevented the shrinking penis from slipping away and taking their life with it. Oddly enough, about a dozen women also fell victim to the panic. This was the Great Singapore Penis Panic, or what doctors refer to as an epidemic of the psychiatric condition called Koro. The Great Singapore Penis Panic and the Future of American Mass Hysteria explains the basis of koro in Chinese medicine, and how and why something so peculiar as the Singapore Koro epidemic could have happened when it did."
- blurb, 'The Great Singapore Penis Panic, 17 Jan 2011. May 9, 2012
gangerh Is this perhaps a bit like castratumdudgeon? Jun 12, 2008
sionnach Spontaneous disappearance of the (male) genitals through the malevolent magical agency of penis thieves or - more accurately - the delusion that this has occurred. Jun 12, 2008
fbharjo Hopi - cave or niche Feb 12, 2007