Retweet: bit.ly Hysterical and a woman's uterus are related? Huh? Hello my dear students! You know when someone is hysterical Basically extreme, uncontrolled emotion, right? Hysterical can also mean something is so funny.. it's hysterical. Where it's so funny you can't control your laughter! Well.. how about if I told you the word hysterical is related to a woman's womb... her uterus! Huh? That's weird! HotForWords investigate Hysterical. Hysterical originally comes from the Greek hysterikos which means "of the womb, or suffering in the womb" from "hystera" which means "womb." Back in ancient Greece, Hippocrates thought that if a woman showed wild swings in emotions, uncontrollable weeping and laughter, it was caused by her womb (or uterus) getting loose in her body and causing all kinds of problems. It would float around and even get caught in the woman's throat! Because of the womb theory, that was finally discarded, only women could be hysterical, until about 2400 years later, when Sigmund Freud decided that men could be hysterical as well. Then 1969 came about and hysterical also meant something so funny you can't control your laughter (like an hysterical person might!) So that's how the word hysterical comes from a women's womb. There you go, another mystery solved by your trust HotForWords. For your homework, what is something you've come across lately that you thought was hysterical, in the funny sense? Please write your answers in the comments below.. and also <b>...</b>
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