nervous disorder

NOUN
  1. a disorder of the nervous system
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How To Use nervous disorder In A Sentence

  • A whole class of nervous disorders, what are known as psychoneuroses, are directly attributed by Dr. Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalytic school, as it is called, to these suppressions, many of which consist of memories that go back to the period of early childhood before the sexual instinct had attained the form that it has in adults. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
  • Dram: the vapours were any form of melancholia or nervous disorder; a frequent excuse for the ladies to take a "dram" -- a small quantity of drink such as gin in a cup or glass sized accordingly. The Beggar's Opera
  • Physicians use the term psychoneuroses to include a group of nervous disorders of so-called functional nature. The Nervous Housewife
  • Some nervous disorders can produce paralysis.
  • He attributed the nervous disorders of his later life to the shock of these deaths.
  • The number of nervous disorders was rising in the region.
  • U.S. beef imports were banned here after a single American animal was diagnosed with the fatal nervous disorder known as "mad cow disease" in 2003.
  • ‘Functional nervous disorder’ was used in the late 19th century to denote symptoms arising from disordered nervous functioning, but in the 20th century this was superseded by terms that implied psychogenesis, such as psychosomatic.
  • The diseases known as menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, amenorrhoea, abortions, prolapsus, chronic inflammations and ulcerations of the womb, with a yet greater variety of sympathetic nervous disorders, are some of the distressing forms of these derangements. Plain Facts for Old and Young
  • This aspect may cause frequent headaches and also can produce nervous disorders.
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