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Definition of Night terror
1. Noun. An emotional episode (usually in young children) in which the person awakens in terror with feelings of anxiety and fear but is unable to remember any incident that might have provoked those feelings.
Definition of Night terror
1. Noun. (pathology) A sleeping disorder, where sleep is interrupted by anxiety, panic or screaming. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Night Terror
Literary usage of Night terror
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann, Henry Larned Keith Shaw, Linnæus Edford La Fétra, Luther Emmett Holt (1912)
"Pavor nocturnus, or night terror, is a special form of nervous disturbance ...
night terror occurs most frequently between the ages of three and six years, ..."
2. A Treatise on diseases peculiar to infants and children by William A. Edmonds (1881)
"night terror. • THE night terror, nightmare, somnambulism, bad dreams, sweet
dreams, all dreams, doubtless depend upon a disturbed or imperfect state of ..."
3. Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical by John Marie Keating (1890)
"They, however, frequently recur several times a night, and continue for many
weeks, whilst the night-terror of irritation usually happens only once, ..."
4. The Clinical Journal (1904)
"I do not believe that one ever forgets the essence ' of a night terror, ...
An excellent example of this form of night terror is given by Charles Dickens. ..."
5. The Practice of Medicine by Horatio C. Wood, Reginald Heber Fitz (1897)
"We have seen one case in which the night-terror in an adult, repeated at intervals
during every night, was not affected by innumerable treatments instituted ..."
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