Speaking of the hysterical...

Well, I just wonder, they remove the female organs called the uterus and ovaries and they call it a hysterectomy.

When they remove tonsils it is called a tonsillectomy, appendix, appendectomy....

so what is up with that term???

Why is it still accepable to use it?

First, it is acceptable to use because the term in no longer associated with the uterus.

It is true that the Greeks believed that the condition of hysteria was caused by disturbances in the uterus. However, the term hysteria is rarely used in western medicine anymore. Rather, psychiatrists and others use the terms conversion disorder; psychosomantic; nonorganic; etc. to describe the medical condition once known as hysteria.

In common vernacular the word hysteria (and its roots, such as hysterical) mean everything from a mass panic and a state of violent mental agitation to extremely funny and uncontrollable emotions.

Spruce, this is trivial, but the word 'psychosomatic' does not have an 'n'.