Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HYS-TER'ICS, or HYS-TE'RI-A
HYS-TER'IC, or HYS-TER'IC-ALHYS-TER'O-CELE
HYS-TER'ICS, or HYS-TE'RI-A, n.
A disease characterized by convulsive struggling, alternately remitting and exacerbating; rumbling in the bowels; sense of suffocation; drowsiness; urine copious and limpid; temper fickle. Good.
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