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GLOVE ANESTHESIA

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Dictionary entry overview: What does glove anesthesia mean?

• GLOVE ANESTHESIA (noun)
The noun GLOVE ANESTHESIA has 1 sense:

1. a mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist

Familiarity information: GLOVE ANESTHESIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GLOVE ANESTHESIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

since no combination of nerves serve this area a glove anesthesia is clearly psychogenic in origin

Hypernyms ("glove anesthesia" is a kind of...):

conversion disorder; conversion hysteria; conversion reaction (a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause))

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