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hwa-byung

n. a culture-bound syndrome specific to Korea and characterized by a range of symptoms that are attributed to the suppression of anger (Korean, literally: “anger disease”). Symptoms include a feeling of a mass in the throat, chest, or abdomen, a sensation of heat in the body, headaches, palpitations, indigestion, insomnia, fatigue, panic, dysphoria, fear of impending death, anorexia, generalized aches and pains, and poor concentration. Also called suppressed anger syndrome; wool-hwa-byung.

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disarranged-sentence test

a test or test item whose objective is to put a scrambled sentence in proper order. For example, the individual being tested could be required to reorder “Boy town the to went bustling the” to read “The boy went to the bustling town.”