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  1. koro(Noun)

    A delusional syndrome found in Malay and southern Chinese populations, characterized by a belief that the subject's penis will retract into the abdomen and cause death.

  2. Koro(ProperNoun)

    an unwritten Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the East Kameng district

  3. Origin: Malaysian, Indonesian for "turtle."

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Koro

    A culture-specific acute delusional syndrome occurring mostly in the Malay people and Southern Chinese. The syndrome is characterized by the individual's sudden experience of depersonalization depicted by the belief that his penis is shrinking into his abdomen and that he will die when this occurs. Although generally classified as a culture-specific syndrome, koro may be no more than a variant of castration anxiety (ANXIETY, CASTRATION) as it has been described in non-Asian patients.


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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

chorus(noun)

a group of singers

the festival chorus.

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