Anthysteric :: Anthysteric (a. & n.) See Antihysteric.

Antihysteric :: Antihysteric (a.) Counteracting hysteria.

Antihysteric :: Antihysteric (n.) A remedy for hysteria.

Gastrohysterotomy :: Gastrohysterotomy (n.) Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.

Hysteranthous :: Hysteranthous (a.) Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened.

Hysteresis :: Hysteresis (n.) A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously induced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity..

Hysteria :: Hysteria (n.) A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits..

Hysteric :: Hysteric (a.) Alt. of Hysterica.

Hysterical :: Hysterical (a.) Of or pertaining to hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; convulsive, fitful..

Hysterics :: Hysterics (n. pl.) Hysteria.

Hysteroepilepsy :: Hysteroepilepsy (n.) A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body..

Hysterogenic :: Hysterogenic (a.) Producing hysteria; as, the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria..

Hysterology :: Hysterology (n.) A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron..

Hysteron Proteron :: Hysteron proteron () A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, he is well and lives..

Hysteron Proteron :: Hysteron proteron () An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence..

Hysterophyte :: Hysterophyte (n.) A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter..

Hysterotomy :: Hysterotomy (n.) The Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.

Shyster :: Shyster (n.) A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way..

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