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ocular bobbing (medicine) and mass hysteria (medicine)


ocular bobbing (medicine)


ocular bobbing
Sudden conjugate downward deviation of the eyes with a slow return to the normal position; seen in some comatose patients who have bilateral hemisphere lesions.


mass hysteria (medicine)


mass hysteria
Spontaneous, en masse development of identical physical and/or emotional symptoms among a group of individuals, as seen in a classroom of schoolchildren, a socially contagious frenzy of irrational behaviour in a group of people as a reaction to an event.

Synonym: epidemic hysteria.