See Also: nosomania(medicine)

ballotini (iou) and nosomania (medicine)


ballotini (iou)



ballotini noun pl. M20.
[Italian ballottini, pl. of ballottino, dim. of ballotta small ball.]
Small particles or beads of glass, used for a variety of industrial and scientific applications.

nosomania (medicine)


nosomania
<psychiatry> An unfounded morbid belief that one is suffering from some special disease.

Origin: noso-+ G. Mania, insanity