Definition of Antihysteric

1. a. Counteracting hysteria.

Definition of Antihysteric

1. Noun. Any substance that counters hysterics. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antihysteric

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Antihysteric

1. Counteracting hysteria. A remedy for hysteria. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antihysteric

antihyperlipidemic
antihyperon
antihyperons
antihypertensive
antihypertensive agents
antihypertensive drug
antihypertensives
antihypertriton
antihypertritons
antihypertrophic
antihypnotic
antihypnotics
antihypochondriac
antihypotensive
antihypotensives
antihysteric (current term)
antihysterics
antihæmorrhagic
antiimmigrant
antiimmigration
antiimport
antiincinerator
antiindependence
antiindustrial
antiindustry
antiinfection
antiinfective
antiinfectives
antiinflammation
antiinflammatories

Literary usage of Antihysteric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man by Moritz Heinrich Romberg (1853)
"An emetic often proves more effectual than the most powerful antihysteric remedies. To the latter belong the anti- spasmodics that are distinguished by ..."

2. A Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia: Being a Treatise on Pharmacology in by Samuel Frederick Gray (1821)
"Seeds odorous, carminative, diuretic, antihysteric, and nervine. ... Seeds antihysteric, diuretic ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1892)
"... remedies and to the salts of quinine; but it may yield to antihysteric treatment (Gazzetta. degli ospitali, No. 91, 1891). 10. ..."

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