nervous disorder

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“Dr. King had a tic, a nervous disorder that would present itself out of the blue,” he said.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2017

“By better techniques we see one nervous disorder after the other moving on from the functional into the organic level.”

From Nature • Oct. 25, 2016

Zika is also linked to Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing nervous disorder.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2016

The local manor has been requisitioned as a hospital, though its owner, Montague Beckwith, is a casualty himself, his skin having broken out in a nervous disorder "like an exoskeleton, or a suit of scaly armour".

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2013

Soon afterwards he was attacked by a grave nervous disorder, but successfully nursed through it by the one or two friends who still remained in the city.

From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)