Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun glove_anesthesia

1 sense of glove anesthesia

Sense 1
glove anesthesia -- (a mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist; "since no combination of nerves serve this area a glove anesthesia is clearly psychogenic in origin")
       => conversion disorder, conversion reaction, conversion hysteria -- (a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause))