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Conversion disorder
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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.
See also for "conversion disorder"
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