The cayenne pepper is known by a few different names: the cow horn pepper, the Guinea spice, the bird pepper and even the aleva pepper. Etymologically, it is named after the French Guinea city of Cayenne, and the cayenne pepper is used not only to spice up food, but also for medicinal purposes.
In modern psychology and psychiatry, hysteria is a feature of hysterical disorders in which a patient experiences physical symptoms that have a psychological, rather than an organic, cause; and histrionic personality disorder characterized by excessive emotions, dramatics, and attention-seeking behavior.tymology: Gk, hystera, womb. a general state of tension or excitement in a person or a group, characterized by unmanageable fear and temporary loss of control over the emotions. Psychiatry A 16 th century term for excessive emotional lability, anxiety etc. See Mass hysteria, Vapors.
insanity. n, pl-ties. 1. (Psychology) relatively permanent disorder of the mind; state or condition of being insane. 2. (Law) law a defect of reason as a result of mental illness, such that a defendant does not know what he or she is doing or that it is wrong.3. utter folly; stupidity.oanthropy. a form of insanity or mental disorder in which the sufferer imagines that he is an animal. â zoanthropic, adj. zoopsia. a form of hallucination in which the sufferer imagines he sees animals.