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"hysteria" has an interesting etymology. I do not have a reference to document it, but in a psychiatry lecture it was said that the Greeks thought women were emotionally unstable at times because the uterus was "wandering" around inside them. So it is an amusing twist of meaning to call a man "hysterical".
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