2. Adjective. (mycology) Having a uterine shape ¹
3. Noun. (psychiatry) A person with a condition similar to hysteria ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hysteroid
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Hysteroid
1. Resembling or simulating hysteria. Origin: hystero-+ G. Eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hysteroid
Literary usage of Hysteroid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Epilepsy and Other Chronic Convulsive Diseases: Their Causes, Symptoms, and by William Richard Gowers (1901)
"If there is evidence that the described convulsion is hysteroid, we have to
ascertain whether it is simple, or whether it is consecutive to an epileptic ..."
2. Conservative Gynecology and Electro-therapeutics: A Practical Treatise on by George Betton Massey (1909)
"The Rest Cure in the Treatment of Hysteria and hysteroid Affections. — There is
no question of the very great value of the "rest cure" in two distinct ..."
3. On Certain Conditions of Nervous Derangement, Somnambulism--hypnotism by William Alexander Hammond (1881)
"THE hysteroid AFFECTIONS—CATALEPSY, ECSTASY AND HYSTERO-EPILEPSY. A LTHOUGH in
systematic medical ... They are hysteroid without actually being hysteria. ..."
4. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"... which it greatly hurries, but especially by its influence upon the psychical
state of the woman. In pyaemia, we have the strangest hysteroid phenomena. ..."
5. Diagnosis of diseases of the brain and of the spinal cord by William Richard Gowers (1885)
"hysteroid convulsion. It is not surprising that so potent a disturbing influence
should evoke into activity a tendency from which few women are altogether ..."
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