cardiac neurosis

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. an anxiety reaction characterized by quick fatigue, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, and other cardiac symptoms, but not caused by disease of the heart.

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Example Sentences

Missed Beats.—A further stage of this cardiac neurosis is the missing of beats.

From Project Gutenberg

This represents the most familiar form of cardiac neurosis and may, of course, be due to such substances as tobacco, or coffee, or tea, where these are taken in excess.

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Gastric Dilatation.—In dilatation of the stomach there is likely to be an associated tendency to a cardiac neurosis.

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He himself, as his son, Dr. Charcot, told me, refused to accept this diagnosis, and preferred to believe that what he was suffering from was a cardiac neurosis—and, of course, he had seen many of them.

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"Cardiac neurosis" is more widespread than laymen�or many doctors�realize.

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