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car'diac neuro"sis
Pathol.
an anxiety reaction characterized by quick fatigue, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, and other cardiac symptoms, but not caused by disease of the heart. Also called
effort syndrome, irritable heart, neurocirculatory asthenia, soldier's heart. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.