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conversion disorder
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conversion disorder

conversion disorder
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(Medicine / Pathology) a psychological disorder in which severe physical symptoms like blindness or paralysis appear with no apparent physical cause
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Noun1.conversion disorder - a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause)
folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder, disturbance - (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
glove anesthesia - a mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist; "since no combination of nerves serve this area a glove anesthesia is clearly psychogenic in origin"


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