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Nervous disorder   /nˈərvəs dɪsˈɔrdər/   Listen
Nervous disorder

noun
1.
A disorder of the nervous system.  Synonyms: neurological disease, neurological disorder.






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"Nervous disorder" Quotes from Famous Books



... itself—doesn't it set up a Catholic lunatic asylum as the ultimate ideal?—The whole earth as a madhouse?—The sort of religious man that the church wants is a typical decadent; the moment at which a religious crisis dominates a people is always marked by epidemics of nervous disorder; the "inner world" of the religious man is so much like the "inner world" of the overstrung and exhausted that it is difficult to distinguish between them; the "highest" states of mind, held up before mankind ...
— The Antichrist • F. W. Nietzsche

... He thought she had undertaken more than she was equal to, and that she felt it so herself, though she would not own it. Her spirits seemed overcome. Her present home, he could not but observe, was unfavourable to a nervous disorder:—confined always to one room;—he could have wished it otherwise—and her good aunt, though his very old friend, he must acknowledge to be not the best companion for an invalid of that description. Her care and attention could not be questioned; ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen



Words linked to "Nervous disorder" :   kuru, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, dyssynergia, ataxia, nerve compression, neurological disorder, neurological disease, brain disorder, disorder, chorea, atopognosia, Lou Gehrig's disease, motor ataxia, brain disease, encephalopathy, ataxy, atopognosis, dyskinesia, upset, athetosis, flaccid paralysis, brain damage, ALS



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