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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Resembling hysteria.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In pathology, resembling hysteria: as, a hysteroid disease or symptom.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective psychiatry Similar to hysteria
  • adjective mycology Having a uterine shape
  • noun psychiatry A person with a condition similar to hysteria

Etymologies

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hystero- + -oid

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