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hysteria (his-ter´e-ә) a term that was formerly used widely in psychiatry but whose meaning has become overly broad; its meanings included classic hysteria (now called somatization disorder); hysterical neurosis (now divided into conversion disorder and the dissociative disorders); and hysterical personality (now called histrionic personality disorder). adj. hyster´ic, hyster´ical., adj.

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