astasia-abasia
Medicine
noun
The inability to stand and walk, especially in an individual who has no demonstrable sensory impairment or motor weakness, occurring as a symptom of psychiatric conversion disorder and of certain types of organic brain disease.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. After French astasie-abasie.
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