furor uterinus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A supposed medical disorder causing licentious urges or behaviour in women; nymphomania.
Example Sentences
- "Mrs. C—, tho' a free woman in one sense of the word, is not stimulated with any violent passions, that border upon the furor uterinus."
- "Renaissance doctors, working within the context of humoral medicine, treated furor uterinus with bleeding, purges, emetics, and a variety of herbal medicines to restore equilibrium to the body's elements."