hysterogenousadj.
/ˌhɪstəˈrɒdʒᵻnəs/, U.S. /ˌhɪstəˈrɑdʒənəs/ Medicine. Now historical.
Producing symptoms of the disorder hysteria; = hysterogenic adj.1Used chiefly with reference to areas on the body (‘points’ or ‘zones’) believed by the French neurologist J.-M. Charcot and his followers to produce seizures or other symptoms of hysteria when stimulated.
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1879 Brain 1 558 Professor Charcot also pointed out that in hysterical women who have not had any fit for some time there are hyperæsthetic points on the body constituting hysterogenous zones comparable to the epileptogenous zones described by Brown-Séquard in guinea-pigs.
1895 F. X. Dercum et al. Text-bk. Nerv. Dis. iii. 94 Another reason for the confusion existing about the hysterogenous effects of these poisons is the fact that all of them produce grave organic lesions.
1920 Urol. & Cutaneous Rev. 24 359/2 Psycho-analysts have since insisted that erogenous zones, being spots of diminished resistance, in hysteria inevitably become hysterogenous zones.
1994 M. Borch-Jacobsen in J. Copjec Supposing Subj. iii. 56 Frank Putnam and his collaborators at the Dissociative Disorders Unit of NIMH [= The National Institute of Mental Health] have even done several sorts of experiments which uncannily recall those of Charcot's assistants on the ‘hysterogenous zones’ and the ‘aesthesiogenic’ effects of magnets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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