If everything — even dressing in the morning — throws you, if every little setback makes you throw a wobbly then you don’t have style.

I screamed “Get them out of here” but they stayed and had a good view of what was going on. I was in a bit of a state. When they’d gone I threw a wobbly, kicking and screaming.

A less common variant is wobbler. When the Dutch bosses in Eindhoven heard the ads they threw a wobbler and cancelled them.

Wobbly, often, as here in the phrase “throw a wobbly”, seems to have emerged into the general language in the last four or five years, probably from a London subculture argot. It may derive from the violent shaking of someone who can­not control his or her anger.

Imaging (from lronw)

A therapeutic technique for relieving stress by summo­ning up mental pictures of pleasant things or activities.

For employees who want to learn how to decompress, experts re­commend several forms of relief. Alien Elkin, program director for StreSscare, suggests abdominal breathing, meditation, and imaging.

+- Exploding Head Syndrome (from LRONW)

A sensation of explosive noise deep in the centre or back of the head, waking the sufferer from sleep.

A previously unreported medical condition known as the Exploding Head Syndrome in which patients experience a bomb-like explosion in the back of thie head, waking the sufferer from sleep, is described by a consul­tant neurologist in the weekly medical journal “The Lancet today”.

People who suffer from this alarming condition tend to I«' middle-aged or elderly women, but it does not appear to be linked to any other form of ill health (not even, as its name might suggest, to having one too many the night be­fore), and its cause is so far unexplained.

Cerebellar Syndrome (from LRONW)

A set of symptoms (e. g. loss of muscle tone and muscu­lar coordination, impaired speech, and involuntary spasmodic movement of the eyeball) indicating disease of the cerebellar hemisphere.

Glyn Worsnip received more than 1000 letters from well-wishers after sharing his feelings on radio about contracting cerebellar syn­drome, a rare brain disease that affects both speech and movement.

Cerebellar syndrome is a well-documented medical condition, but had not really impinged on public awareness until 1987, when televi­sion presenter Glyn Worsnip revealed that he was suffering from it. It. is alternatively called Nonne’s syndrome, after Max Nonne, a l-9th- cefitury German neurologist.

Altered State of Consciousness (from SBD)

Any state of mind that differs from the normal mental state of a conscious person.

Other cultures have long had techniques for arriving at altered slates of consciousness — through such means as chanting, whirling, lasting, breathing exercises, and flagelation. Now such procedures are recognized to have dramatic effects on body chemicals which contrib­ute to the achievement of the desired state.

It is beginning to be thought that telepathy, clairvoyance, mystical trans­ports, and other altered states of consciousness may be latent in most, if not all, of us, along with psychic powers dominions not demonstrated.

Cytomegalovirus (from SBD)

A virus which causes a disease of the central nervous sys­tem similar to infectious mononucleosis, attacking and en­larging cells, and is characterized by inclusion bodies in the cell nucleus.

Cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex virus have led to brain dam­age, deafness, blindness and other malformations of the central nerv­ous system