hystero

My good old Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has this to say about hyster- or hystero- comb form French or Latin, French hyster-, from Latin hyster-, from Greek, from hystera 1: womb.

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My good old Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has this to say about hyster- or hystero- comb form French or Latin, French hyster-, from Latin hyster-, from Greek, from hystera 1: womb.

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Lefevre told the father that this was something other than hystero-hypnotism, which, while it reassured him as to his daughter's former health, made him the more anxious regarding her present condition.

Master of His Fate J. Mclaren Cobban

A striking instance of this was afforded by the phenomena of the hystero-epileptic attacks to which this patient was subject.

Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead

She entered the Charity hospital to be under treatment for some accident arising from pulmonary congestion, and while there was suddenly seized with violent attacks of hystero-epilepsy, which first contracted both legs, and finally reduced them to complete immobility.

Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use A. Alpheus

Then suddenly he had a hystero-epileptic attack -- fifty hours of convulsions and ecstasy -- and when he awoke from it he was no longer paralysed, no longer acquainted with tailoring, and no longer virtuous.

Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead

The symptoms, though varying in different individuals, were of one general character, partaking, especially as to the muscular phenomena, of the nature of hysteria, or hystero-catalepsy.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

Automatic writing may take place when the agent is in a state of trance, spontaneous or induced, in hystero-epilepsy or other morbid states; or in a condition not distinguishable from normal wakefulness.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

It is true that occasionally some hystero-religious society picks up a poor derelict whom they induce to pose as a horrible example of depravity, saved by their particular brand of religion.

Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

It is true that occasionally some hystero-religious society picks up a poor derelict whom they induce to pose as a horrible example of depravity, saved by their particular brand of religion.

Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919