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noun Psychiatry.
a mental disorder in which physical symptoms, as paralysis or blindness, occur without apparent physical cause and instead appear to result from psychological conflict or need.
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Also called conversion hysteria.
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conversion disorder

noun
a psychological disorder in which severe physical symptoms like blindness or paralysis appear with no apparent physical cause
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