Meaning of furor uterinus | Babel Free

Definitions

A supposed medical disorder causing licentious urges or behaviour in women; nymphomania.

historical

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level