GLOVE ANESTHESIA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A 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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("glove anesthesia" is a kind of...):

conversion disorder; conversion hysteria; conversion reaction (a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause))