nervous disorder
Example Sentences
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“Dr. King had a tic, a nervous disorder that would present itself out of the blue,” he said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2017
“By better techniques we see one nervous disorder after the other moving on from the functional into the organic level.”
From Nature ● Oct. 25, 2016
Lee did not raise his children as a widower, although his wife, the former Frances Cunningham Finch, suffered from what was described as a nervous disorder, possibly bipolar disorder, before her death in 1951.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2016
The local manor has been requisitioned as a hospital, though its owner, Montague Beckwith, is a casualty himself, his skin having broken out in a nervous disorder "like an exoskeleton, or a suit of scaly armour".
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2013
It is also used as a verb, meaning to limp, and as a substantive, especially in the term “string-halt” or “spring-halt,” a nervous disorder affecting the muscles of the hind legs of horses.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
