| 词汇 | hysteria |
| 词源 | hysteria. Early physicians decided 1) that women are more liable to emotional disturbances than men, and 2) that this was because of the malfunctioning of an organ men didn’t have, the womb. This mistaken notion gave us the word hysteria, from the Greek hysterikós “of the womb.” |
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