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sechium (medicine) and dissociative hysteria (medicine)


sechium (medicine)


sechium
<botany> The edible fruit of a West Indian plant (Sechium edule) of the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for Food.

Origin: NL., cf. F. Sechion; perhaps formed fr. Gr. Cucumber.

Source: Websters Dictionary


dissociative hysteria (medicine)


dissociative hysteria


An unconscious process sometimes seen in patients with multiple personalities, or in hysteria, in which a group of mental processes is separated from the rest of the thinking processes, resulting in an independent functioning of these processes and a loss of the usual Relationships among them.