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Definition of Anxiety reaction
1. Noun. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
Medical Definition of Anxiety reaction
1. A sudden bout of anxiety that is often accompanied by the features of hyperventilation (tingling around mouth and in fingertips, rapid breathing, faintness or fainting). (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anxiety Reaction
Literary usage of Anxiety reaction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to Medical and Biological Research by William Osler (1919)
"Yet with this much under control he continued in morbid fear of the return of
his pains, and whereas primarily the anxiety reaction accompanied the organic ..."
2. Cocaine Use in America: Epidemmiologic and Clinical Perspectives edited by Nicholas J. Kozel, Edgar H. Adams (1996)
"These toxic reactions are dose related and depend on physical tolerance to the
drug, psychological set, and sociocultural setting. Acute anxiety reaction or ..."
3. Manual of First-Aid Practices for School Bus Drivers by William R. Nesbitt (1985)
"Also, numbness and tingling, especially about the mouth and face, are symptoms
that indicate the person is having an anxiety reaction. ..."
4. Police Violence in Argentina: Torture and Police Killings in Buenos Aires by Bell Gale Chevigny, Paul Chevigny, Americas Watch Committee (U.S.) (1991)
"... what he did have was a history of violence and, two months before the shooting,
an "anxiety reaction" that required psychiatric treatment. ..."
5. The Social Hygiene Bulletin by American Social Hygiene Association (1922)
"... another, as suffering at present from anxiety reaction owing to arrest which
she states is without cause and a third as indifferent, shows no emotional ..."