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nervous disorder

n. a disorder of the nervous system [syn: neurological disorder, neurological disease]

Usage examples of "nervous disorder".

Her entourage included a financier rumored to be her next husband, the Brazilian ambassador and his wife, and several celebrities from the chic American fashion world: Ironically, two of the models in the group appeared to suffer from anorexia nervosa m the flip side of bulimia, the nervous disorder that had plagued Diana for the previous dozen years.

The rigors which had attacked Barrois gradually increased, the features of the face became quite altered, and the convulsive movement of the muscles appeared to indicate the approach of a most serious nervous disorder.

She suffered from a nervous disorder so pronounced that you had fears for her mental condition.

The scream, the rushing out into the waiting-room, the complaint and the nervous disorder.

Silently Grant cursed whatever was in the ducting and the nervous disorder it was causing him.

Her present home, he could not but observe, was unfavourable to a nervous disorder: -- confined always to one room.

As I told you, he knew me fairly well, and Lady Levy had consulted me about a nervous disorder in the summer.

Also, he smeared his weapons in the juice of the kneblasch root, whose garlic stink would bring about a partial paralysis in any vampire, causing endless vomiting and a general nervous disorder lasting for days.

He was more or less hardened to the prospect of physical injury at any time, as anyone who plays hockey and football must be, but there was something about nervous disorder that undermined his morale.