Giuseppe Fissore had suffered from somnambulism and pavor nocturnus (fear of darkness) when quite a child; when a little older, he used to get up in the night, walk about and try to throw himself out of the window.
To illustrate by a comical example how one wearing the blinders of medical mythology may miss the understanding of such cases I will relate a case which I found in a thesis on pavor nocturnus by Debacker, 1881.
For the night terrors with hallucinations (pavor nocturnus) frequently found in children, I would unhesitatingly give the same explanation.
This appears clearly with children, and so for example with our patient as a tendency to convulsive attacks, pavor nocturnus and terrifying dreams, from which she starts up.
Pavor was, even then, decayed almost to extinction, but Barton preserved its desultory street of ancient, detached cottages.
When she announced, on a fine afternoon, that we were going to Pavor and Barton, I was always agog to start.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pavor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
