glove anesthesia

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   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”

   Broaderconversion disorder

Questions about glove anesthesia

What does glove anesthesia mean?

glove anesthesia means "a mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist".

Is glove anesthesia a common word?

glove anesthesia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.