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Definition of Glove anesthesia
1. Noun. A mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist. "Since no combination of nerves serve this area a glove anesthesia is clearly psychogenic in origin"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glove Anesthesia
Literary usage of Glove anesthesia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wisconsin Medical Journal by State Medical Society of Wisconsin (1904)
"glove anesthesia In a case of hysterical paralysis of the hand following a slight
Injury. The border of the anesthesia Is sharply defined and the line ..."
2. Traumatic surgery by John Joseph Moorhead (1921)
"Hysteric zones and anesthesia areas: a, Hemi-anesthesia and ovarian zone;
b, "stocking and glove" anesthesia, ovarian and umbilical zones; c, ..."
3. Pathology and morbid anatomy by Thomas Henry Green (1905)
"... and " glove anesthesia " of the arms, characteristic of polyneuritis, indicate
that the sensory disturbance does not correspond to spinal segmentation, ..."