globus hystericus

English

Etymology

Scientific Latin, from Latin globus (“globe”) + hystericus (“hysteric”).

Noun

globus hystericus (uncountable)

  2. (medicine, dated, deprecated) Globus (lump in the throat) when believed (by the speaker or writer) to be psychosomatic (hysterical). [from 18th c.]
    • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 78:
      Something which could later be interpreted as hysteria – a disorder marked by palpitations, migratory pain, breathing difficulties and the globus hystericus – might be attributed to a wandering uterus.
    • 2001, Stephen T. Holgate, Martin Church, Lawrence M. Lichtenstein, editors, Allergy, page 168:
      A careful evaluation of a patient with globus hystericus, possibly with the assistance of X-ray or laryngoscopy evidence, reveals no anatomical evidence of upper respiratory obstruction.

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