Meanings
adjectivehysterogenic (comparative more hysterogenic, superlative most hysterogenic)
comparative more hysterogenic · superlative most hysterogenic
- medicineProducing hysteria.
He was delighted, for instance, to discover hysterogenic points, zones of hypersensitivity which, when fingered, provoked an attack; it confirmed his conviction of the reality of ‘latent hysteria’.
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 495
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