Conversion disorder

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A condition where the patient displays neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, but without any neurological explanation, usually traced back to a psychological trigger. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause) wordnet

Etymology

From conversion + disorder.

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