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Hysteria

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A nervous affection occurring almost exclusively in women in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated and the will power correspondingly diminished so that the patient loses control over the emotions becomes the victim of imaginary sensations and often falls into paroxism or fits

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