Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesAn anxiety disorder comprising symptoms of tachycardia, vertigo, and insomnia with no apparent physical cause; neurocirculatory asthenia.
Dr. Berti has described two cases of what seems to be now called “Krishaber’s disease”, and is really chronic vertigo, gradually increasing in intensity, and not connected with anæmia, epilepsy, or affection of the internal ear or stomach.
1877, J.A. Gasquet, “Italian Psychological Literature”, in Journal of Mental Science, volume 22, number 100, page 632
Origin
Named after Hungarian-French physician Maurice Krishaber (1836-1883), who described the condition.
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