English Explanatory Dictionary

grisi siknis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A culture-bound syndrome among the Miskito people of eastern Central America, mainly affecting young women with anxiety, nausea, and sometimes violent frenzy.

Word forms

grisi siknis

Etymology

Reborrowed from Miskito [Term?], from English crazy sickness.

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