Taber's Medical Dictionary
Alice in Wonderland syndrome
[Alice Liddell, from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland]
Perceptual distortions of the size and/or shape of objects. It is often characterized by the hallucination that things are smaller than they really are and is sometimes experienced by patients suffering from migraine, infectious mononucleosis, or an overdose of hallucinogenic drugs.
SYN: SEE: Todd syndrome
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765472/all/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765472/all/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome. Accessed September 22, 2020.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (23rd edition). F.A. Davis Company. Retrieved September 22, 2020, from https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765472/all/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome [Internet]. In: Venes D, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2020 September 22]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765472/all/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome.
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