cardiac neurosis

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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.

Words nearby cardiac neurosis

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How to use cardiac neurosis in a sentence

Whether it ultimately takes aesthetic discipline or neurosis to get to that point, it's hard to say.
Frank Gehry Is Architecture’s Mad Genius|Sarah Moroz|October 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
How do you tell the difference between aesthetic discipline and neurosis?
Frank Gehry Is Architecture’s Mad Genius|Sarah Moroz|October 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Is this neurosis, narcissism, or the farsighted wisdom that allows a fellow to win three hundred games?
Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up|Tom Boswell|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A woman, sixty-eight, suffers a heart attack and goes into prolonged cardiac arrest.
Real Life Lazarus: When Patients Rise From the Dead|Sandeep Jauhar|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In fact, half of the people who have cardiac events have “ideal” levels of LDL cholesterol.
The AHA’s Absurd Saturated Fat Obsession|Dr. Barbara H. Roberts|June 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Marked variation in the amount at successive examinations strongly suggests a neurosis.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
He knew that there was cardiac trouble in his family, but he had never realized before the meaning of his heritage.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
Stekel,41 one of Freud's pupils, in an elaborate monograph, also lays stress on the sexual factor of the anxiety-neurosis.
The Sexual Life of the Child|Albert Moll
In addition to all this, Jessie's brother dies of consumption, and a seaside acquaintance is half killed by cardiac asthma.
British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Volume LIV|Various
The symptoms of the disease are moderated, the duration of the attack is shortened, and the cardiac complications are prevented.
Scientific American Supplement No. 299|Various