conversion disorder


nounPsychiatry.
  1. a mental disorder in which physical symptoms, as paralysis or blindness, occur without apparent physical cause and instead appear to result from psychological conflict or need.

  • Also called conversion hysteria.

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conversion disorder

noun
  1. a psychological disorder in which severe physical symptoms like blindness or paralysis appear with no apparent physical cause

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