Medical Term:
flashback
Pronunciation: flash′bak
Definition:
- An involuntary recurrence of some aspect of a hallucinatory experience or perceptual distortion occurring some time after ingestion of the hallucinogen that produced the original effect and without subsequent ingestion of the substance.
- In posttraumatic stress disorder (q.v.), the sensations resulting from strong emotional sequences acting as triggers.
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