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cardiac neurosis

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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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He knew that the "cardiac neurosis" sometimes turns victims of heart attack into invalids.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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