Sentence examples for koro from inspiring English sources
noun
A delusional syndrome found in Malay and southern Chinese populations, characterized by a belief that the subject's penis will retract into the abdomen and cause death.
In some Southeast Asian cultures, men have been known to experience what is called amok, an episode of murderous rage followed by amnesia; men in the region also suffer from koro, which is characterized by the debilitating certainty that their genitals are retracting into their bodies.
The farmers of the Bobo village Mouni sent their koro masks to Segou – huge, barrel-shaped bush spirits who normally appear only in the planting season at the start of the rains to promote fertility.
It's no coincidence that in almost every recorded case of koro, the victim already knew of the condition, so was primed to detect it.
The vanishing-penis phenomenon – known by its south-east Asian name, koro – is listed in the psychiatry bible, the DSM, and has cropped up worldwide for centuries.
Those koro victims didn't have vanishing penises, obviously.
These masks have never before left their village, let alone performed in front of 10,000 people, but their simple rhythms and frantic movements reminded me how ancient the Bobo Bwa culture is – people were dancing the koro masks thousands of years ago in this part of Africa, long before anyone wrote down the Old Testament.
Dr Harrison thinks that when the Koro-Aka dictionary is complete, texting in the language will take off rapidly.The most advanced project of the four is in Tuva, in southern Siberia, where Russian is becoming the dominant language.
This was the tongue that had only one fluent speaker at the beginning of the project, but with his help and that of a few others who had partial knowledge of the language, Dr Harrison and his team have built a talking dictionary containing 14,000 words.Something similar will happen soon, they hope, in the part of north-eastern India where Koro-Aka is spoken.
Lau Group, also called Eastern Group, island cluster of Fiji in the South Pacific Ocean, east of the Koro Sea.
George Dregaso of Fiji's National Disaster Management Office said that two people on Ovalau Island died when the house they were sheltering in collapsed on them, and that another man was killed on Koro Island, although it wasn't clear how he died.
It surrounds the Koro Sea about 1,300 miles (2,100 km) north of Auckland, New Zealand.
