‖ globus Path.
(ˈgləʊbəs)
[L. globus globe.]
Short for globus hystericus, the medical term for a choking sensation, as of a lump in the throat, to which hysterical persons are subject.
| 1794–6 E. Darwin Zoon. (1802) II. 530 The globus hystericus consists in the retrograde motion of the œsophagus. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 405 note, The epileptic patient does not laugh or shed tears..neither is globus a sensation known to him. 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxiii. 293, I looked at him [the sun] thankfully with a great globus in my throat. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 803 He commonly suffers from globus. |