HyperDic: glove_anesthesia

English > 1 sense of the expression glove anesthesia:
NOUNstateglove anesthesiaa mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist
English > glove anesthesia: 1 sense > noun 1, state
MeaningA mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist.
Example"since no combination of nerves serve this area a glove anesthesia is clearly psychogenic in origin"
Broaderconversion disorder, conversion reaction, conversion hysteriaA mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause)

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