cardiac neurosis

noun Pathology.

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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Also called effort syndrome, irritable heart, neurocirculatory asthenia, soldier's heart.

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