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tocomania, tokomania
An excessive desire or obsession for childbirth.
tomomania
1. An unusual interest in surgery; that is, abnormal desires to have operations.
2. An irrational desire to use operative procedures by either a doctor or a patient.
toxicomania
1. A morbid and intense craving for poisons.
2. A morbid urge to poison oneself.
trichomania
An intense fascination with hair.
trichorrhexomania, trichokryptomania, trichomania
1. An impulse to pinch off one’s hair.
2. A compulsion to break off hairs of the scalp or beard with the fingernails.
trichotillomania
1. A compulsive desire to pull out one's own hair.
2. Pleasure, gratification, or relief when pulling out one's hair.
3. The unnatural and irresistible urge to pullout one's own hair.
It is estimated that eight million Americans are affected by this compulsive action.
Sites of hair pulling may include any region of the body in which hair may grow with the most common areas being the scalp, eyebrows, and eyelashes. Stressful circumstances frequently cause some increased hair-pulling behavior, but increased hair pulling also occurs in states of relaxation and distraction; such as, when watching television or reading a book.
Trichotillomania (TTM) or "trich" is an impulse control disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pull out scalp hair, eyelashes, beard hair, nose hair, pubic hair, eyebrows or other body hair. It may be distantly related to obsessive-compulsive disorder, with which it shares both similarities and differences.
tristemania or tristimania
Melancholia [a major depressive condition such as feelings of painful dejection or an irritable mood] or extreme sadness.
troglomaniac
Someone who has an abnormal desire to be in or to dwell in caves.
tromomania
Delirium tremens [an acute hallucinatory delirium, marked memory impairment, disorientation, and a coarse, generalized tremor that involves particularly the fingers, face, and tongue].
Turkomania
A rage for Turkish manners or customs; excessive favor of Turkish policy.
typhomania
A muttering delerium characteristic of that in typhoid fever and typhus.
typomania
1. A craze for seeing one’s writings or name in print; a craze for typology or symbolism.
2. A mania for writing for publication.
uranomania
The delusion that one comes from celestial, or extraterrestrial, origins.
uteromania
Nymphomania or insanity associated with uterine disorders.
verbomania, verbomaniac
A compulsion for excessive use of words and for talking very fast; a psychotic flow of speech.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave":
fur-, furi-;
ira-;
lysso-;
rab-, rav-.
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