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Historical term for a chronic, but fluctuating, disorder beginning in early life and characterized by recurrent and multiple somatic complaints not apparently due to physical illness. This diagnosis is not used in contemporary practice.
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- Hysterical Neuroses
- Neuroses, Hysterical
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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HYSTERICAL NEUROSES was see under HYSTERIA 1969-78
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Hysteria. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007046. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007046
- Hysteria. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria
- Hysteria. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q144119