~ HYSTERALGIA   id+ | PAIN IN THE WOMB  UTERUS |
~ HYSTERECTOMY  id+ | UTERUS RESECTION |
~ HYSTERESIS    id+ | TIME LAG BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT |
~ HYSTERECTOMY  id+ | RESECTION OF THE UTERUS |
~ HYSTERESIS    id+ | LAGGING BEHIND |
~ HYSTERIA      id+ | obsolete term for various NEUROSES |
~ HYSTERIC      id+ | ONE WITH UNCONTROLLABLE EMOTIONS |
                id+ | HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY |
~ HYSTERO~      id+ | prefix pointing to
                      UTERUS WOMB or MATRIX |
~ HYSTEROCELE   med> HERNIATED UTERUS
~ HYSTERODYNIA  med> UTERINE PAIN
~ HYSTEROMYOMA  med> UTERINE LEIOMYOMA
                note
  etym> gr HYSKTERIKA = WOMB MATRIX or see> UTERUS 
  med> HYSTERALGIA is for UTERINE PAIN
  med> HYSTERIA is an obsolete and VAGUE TERM
       for a variety of NEUROSES also a vague term for 
  ANXIETY SYNDROMES or ERRATIC BEHAVIORS 
  also called collectively "PERSONALITY DISORDERS"
  HYSTERIA formerly was subdivided into groups
  including "ANXIETY HYSTERIA" is now given as
  PHOBIAS  FEAR or PANIC ATTACKS  etc
  note HYSTERIA implies A CONSTELLATION or
       SYNDROME of MULTIPLE SOMATIC COMPLAINTS
  WITHOUT AN APPARENT CAUSE
  CHARACTERISTIC ARE "CONVERSION SYMPTOMS"
  including symptoms MIMICKING DISEASES
  or FEELINGS OF PANIC  FEAR  PARESTHESIA or
  NUMBNESS or "STRANGE FEELINGS" in general
  but also concrete complaints of feelings of
  ANESTHESIA  PARALYSIS  FAINTING
  hx> in ancient Greece HYSTERIA was attributed to
      A DISPLACEMENT OF THE UTERUS or an
  ALTERED UTERINE FLOW
  HYSTERICAL PERSONALITY was seen as
  dominated by EXAGGERATED EMOTIONS or
  OVERREACTION   DRAMATIZATION   EXCITABILITY
  in lesser degree these are characteristics of
  HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY
  WOMEN WITH HISTRIONIC PERSONALITIES
  OFTEN ARE SEEN AS ATTRACTIVE SEXUAL TARGETS 
  hx> HYSTERIA RISK was invoked as a reason to 
      deny WOMEN RIGHTS because their incapacity 
  TO MAKE RATIONAL DECISIONS or 
  HOLD THEIR CHARACTER  
  med> hx> the HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS 
           medical writtings from the 7th c. B.C. 
  contemporary of the era of ARISTOTLE assert that 
  HIPPOCRATES two centuries earlier 
  attributed HISTERIA to a WANDERING WOMB 

  med> HYSTERIA IS AN OBSOLETE NEBULOUS TERM
       implies A SYNDROME OR CONSTELLATION OF
  MULTIPLE SOMATIC COMPLAINTS WITHOUT AN APPARENT CAUSE
  CHARACTERISTIC ARE "CONVERSION SYMPTOMS" MIMICKING DISEASES
  OFTEN MANIFESTED AS ANESTHESIA  PARALYSIS  FAINTING
  hx> ANCIENT GREEKS ATTRIBUTED HYSTERIA TO A DISPLACEMENT OR
      THE UTERUS or an ALTERED UTERINE FLOW
  HYSTERICAL PERSONALITY IS SAID TO BE CHARACTERIZED BY
  EXCITABILITY  EMOTIONAL OVERREACTION  DRAMATIZATION  or
  IN LESSER DEGREES IT MAY BE SEEN AS A HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY
  cont> see> UTERUS  sug> WOMB