GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Neurotic (?), a. [Gr. νεῦρον nerve.]
   1. Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, “a neurotic disease”.
   
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   2. Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
   
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   3. Of or pertaining to neurosis2; characteristic of neurosis2; caused by neurosis2.
   
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   Neurotic, n.
   1. A disease seated in the nerves.
   
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   2. (Med.) Any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers.
   
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   ☞ Neurotics as a class include all those poisons whose main action is upon the brain and spinal cord.  They may be divided into three orders: (a) Cerebral neurotics, or those which affect the brain only. (b) Spinal neurotics, or tetanics, those which affect the spinal cord. (c) Cerebro-spinal neurotics, or those which affect both brain and spinal cord.
   
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   3. A person afflicted with a neurosis2.
   
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