sham rage


rage

 [rāj] a state of violent anger.sham rage an outburst of motor activity resembling the outward manifestations of fear and anger, occurring in decorticated animals and in certain pathologic conditions in humans.

sham rage

a quasiemotional state, characterized by manifestations of fear and anger on trifling provocation; produced in animals by the removal of the cerebral cortex (decortication).

sham rage

An outburst of motor activity resembling rage (e.g., in cats, hissing, spitting, defensive posturing, piloerection, dilation of pupils) which may be seen in decorticate or diencephalic animals, or induced by electrical stimulation of the fornix of the hippocampus.

sham rage

(sham rāj) Quasiemotional state, characterized by manifestations of fear and anger on trifling provocation.