| 单词 | hysterical passion |
| 释义 | > as lemmashysterical passion hysterical passion n. Medicine (now historical and rare) a (supposed) physical disorder originally attributed to displacement or dysfunction of the uterus, characterized particularly by sensations of choking or breathlessness (cf. hysteria n. 1); = hysteric passion n. at hysteric n. and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1623 J. Hart tr. P. van Foreest Arraignm. Vrines ii. v. 64 Such like sleepy diseases, together also with..bloody fluxes, hystericall passion, commonly called the mother, &c. 1762 tr. J. Astruc Treat. Dis. Women I. iv. 77 There will happen in this case, attacks of the hysterical passion. 1848 C. D. Meigs Females & their Dis. xxxvi. 467 In not a few instances, I have put a stop to the paroxysm of hysterical passion by balancing the uterus upon the point of my index finger, and thrusting it as far as I could carry it into the upper part of the pelvic excavation. 1963 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 56 323/2 Jorden in his rejection of a supernatural origin for the hysterical passion may for a time have reinforced the idea of its uterine origin, but Willis undermined that by attributing it to a discharge of animal spirits in the nervous system. < as lemmas |
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