Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inferior light-colored-kind of trepang.
- noun A Japanese incense-burner or censer, usually of bronze, iron, or pottery.
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- noun psychology A
delusional syndrome found inMalay and southernChinese populations, characterized by a belief that the subject'spenis will retract into the abdomen and cause death.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As was the case the case with witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, in Singapore the notion of koro was deeply rooted in cultural beliefs.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria M.D. Scott Mendelson 2012
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The government, media and the local medical association cooperated in spreading the word that koro was not real, no one was dying from penis shrinkage, and there was nothing to be afraid of.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria M.D. Scott Mendelson 2012
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This was an epidemic of the culture-bound illness known as koro.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria M.D. Scott Mendelson 2012
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As was the case the case with witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, in Singapore the notion of koro was deeply rooted in cultural beliefs.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria M.D. Scott Mendelson 2012
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The government, media and the local medical association cooperated in spreading the word that koro was not real, no one was dying from penis shrinkage, and there was nothing to be afraid of.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria M.D. Scott Mendelson 2012
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This was an epidemic of the culture-bound illness known as koro.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria M.D. Scott Mendelson 2012
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The government, media and the local medical association cooperated in spreading the word that koro was not real, no one was dying from penis shrinkage, and there was nothing to be afraid of.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria M.D. Scott Mendelson 2012
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The government, media and the local medical association cooperated in spreading the word that koro was not real, no one was dying from penis shrinkage, and there was nothing to be afraid of.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria M.D. Scott Mendelson 2012
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This was an epidemic of the culture-bound illness known as koro.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria M.D. Scott Mendelson 2012
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As was the case the case with witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, in Singapore the notion of koro was deeply rooted in cultural beliefs.
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria M.D. Scott Mendelson 2012
fbharjo commented on the word koro
Hopi - cave or niche
February 12, 2007
sionnach commented on the word koro
Spontaneous disappearance of the (male) genitals through the malevolent magical agency of penis thieves or - more accurately - the delusion that this has occurred.
June 12, 2008
gangerh commented on the word koro
Is this perhaps a bit like castratumdudgeon?
June 12, 2008
bilby commented on the word koro
"Forty-three years ago, a strange series of events unfolded on the island of Singapore. Hundreds of men rushed to the hospitals of the island with the terrifying belief that their penises were shrinking. Each feared that if his penis shrank away completely, he would die. Some came with lucky red strings tightly wrapped around their penises to prevent the lethal disappearance. Others had clamps holding their wayward organs in place. Most often it was a firm grasp of a hand, their own or a frightened family member's, that prevented the shrinking penis from slipping away and taking their life with it. Oddly enough, about a dozen women also fell victim to the panic. This was the Great Singapore Penis Panic, or what doctors refer to as an epidemic of the psychiatric condition called Koro. The Great Singapore Penis Panic and the Future of American Mass Hysteria explains the basis of koro in Chinese medicine, and how and why something so peculiar as the Singapore Koro epidemic could have happened when it did."
- blurb, 'The Great Singapore Penis Panic, 17 Jan 2011.
May 9, 2012