NOUN | state | glove anesthesia | a mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist |
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Meaning | A mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist. | |
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Example | "since no combination of nerves serve this area a glove anesthesia is clearly psychogenic in origin" | |
Broader | conversion disorder, conversion reaction, conversion hysteria | A mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause) |
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