globus hystericus
English
Etymology
Scientific Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin globus (“globe”) + hystericus (“hysteric”).
Noun
- (medicine) Globus, especially seen as hysterical or psychosomatic. [from 18th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 78:
- Something which could later be interpreted as hysteria – a disorder marked by palpitations, migratory pain, breathing difficulties and the globus hystericus – might be attributed to a wandering uterus.
- 2001, Stephen T. Holgate, Martin Church, Lawrence M. Lichtenstein (Eds.), Allergy, p. 168:
- A careful evaluation of a patient with globus hystericus, possibly with the assistance of X-ray or laryngoscopy evidence, reveals no anatomical evidence of upper respiratory obstruction.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 78: