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
About two years ago, I was attacked with a nervous disorder in my head, which violently afflicted my whole frame.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
