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conversion disorder


conversion disorder

noun

Definition of CONVERSION DISORDER

: a psychoneurosis in which bodily symptoms (as paralysis of the limbs) appear without physical basis —called also conversion hysteria, conversion reaction

First Known Use of CONVERSION DISORDER

1980

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