NERVOUS DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nervous disorder mean? 

• NERVOUS DISORDER (noun)
  The noun NERVOUS DISORDER has 1 sense:

1. a disorder of the nervous system

  Familiarity information: NERVOUS DISORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NERVOUS DISORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorder of the nervous system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

nervous disorder; neurological disease; neurological disorder

Hypernyms ("nervous disorder" is a kind of...):

disorder; upset (a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nervous disorder"):

brain damage (injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc.)

brain disease; brain disorder; encephalopathy (any disorder or disease of the brain)

ataxia; ataxy; dyssynergia; motor ataxia (inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait)

atopognosia; atopognosis (absence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch)

dyskinesia (abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements)

chorea (any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs)

flaccid paralysis (weakness or loss of muscle tone resulting from injury or disease of the nerves innervating the muscles)

ALS; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Lou Gehrig's disease (thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs)

athetosis (a continuous succession of slow, writhing, involuntary movements of the hands and feet and other body parts)

kuru (a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned)

nerve compression (harmful pressure on a nerve (especially in nerves that pass over rigid prominences); causes nerve damage and muscle weakness)

 Context examples 

Her present home, he could not but observe, was unfavourable to a nervous disorder:—confined always to one room;—he could have wished it otherwise—and her good aunt, though his very old friend, he must acknowledge to be not the best companion for an invalid of that description.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)