furor uterinus

English

Noun

furor uterinus

1. (medicine, now historical) A supposed medical disorder causing licentious urges or behaviour in women; nymphomania.
   • 1789, Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies, London: H. Ranger, page 82:

     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.

   • 1995, Jennifer Terry, Jacqueline Urla, Deviant Bodies, page 227:

     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.