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Re: What is Hysteria? » rjlockhart

Posted by Larry Hoover on January 2, 2006, at 15:33:42 [reposted on January 3, 2006, at 0:19:14 | original URL]

In reply to What is Hysteria?, posted by rjlockhart on January 2, 2006, at 13:55:09

> I read some on this but didnt knew what it ment.
>
> Is this some disorder?

It literally refers to a medical syndrome arising from possessing a uterus. As ed says, it's fallen out of favour, for a number of reasons.

hyster-ectomy means uterus removal
hyster-ical means a misogynistic characterization of female behaviour

Lar

 

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