cardiac neurosis

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

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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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