hysteroidadj.

1839 R. Dunglison New Remedies 478 More or less prolonged impressions made upon the senses..will induce an hysteric or hysteroid condition.

1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Hysteroid, resembling hysteria;—as a hysteroid disease, symptom, &c.

1887 Fortn. Rev. May 738 The undoubted greater prevalence of hysteroid symptoms among the Latin..races.

1924 G. B. Shaw St. Joan p. xix St Teresa's hormones had gone astray and left her incurably hyperpituitary or hyperadrenal or hysteroid or epileptoid or anything but asteroid.

1993 P. D. Kramer Listening to Prozac (1994) iv. 72 Two such categories are of particular interest: atypical depression..and hysteroid dysphoria.

1852 Southern Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 8 395 I was called to see Martha, a negro woman about 24 years old, and found her affected with some very strange hysteroidal disease.

1887 Med. News 8 Jan. 37 These reports appear to be biassed by the excitement of the imagination,..and their value is much diminished by the unmistakable hysteroidal impress which they bear.

2002 J. Blunt Breaking Clean (2003) 270 In a way, the textbooks had prepared me too well. I had memorized definitions, descriptions and treatments. I knew about epileptiform, tetanic and hysteroidal convulsions.