| AESTHESIS | • aesthesis n. Alternative spelling of esthesis. • æsthesis n. Obsolete spelling of esthesis. • AESTHESIS n. the ability to receive sense impressions, also AESTHESIA, ESTHESIA, ESTHESIS. |
| ANAMNESIS | • anamnesis n. The ability to recall past events; recollection. • anamnesis n. (Medicine) The medical history of a patient. • anamnesis n. (Rhetoric) The mention of the past; quotation of exemplary authors from memory to establish one’s authority. |
| APHERESIS | • apheresis n. (Linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the… • apheresis n. (Medicine, specific, still current) The removal of blood from a patient, and the removal of certain… • apheresis n. (Medicine, general, obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological… |
| ATHETESIS | • athetesis n. The act or fact of setting aside as spurious; rejection as invalid. • ATHETESIS n. the rejection of a passage as spurious. |
| DIAERESIS | • diaeresis n. (Orthography) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive… • diaeresis n. (Linguistics, prosody) Distraction; the separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables. • diaeresis n. (Prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse. |
| DIAPYESIS | • diapyesis n. Suppuration. • DIAPYESIS n. release or discharge of pus. |
| DIATHESIS | • diathesis n. (Medicine) A hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder. • diathesis n. (Grammar) Voice (active or passive). • DIATHESIS n. a constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or condition. |
| DIGENESIS | • digenesis n. (Biology) The alternation of sexual and asexual methods of reproduction. • DIGENESIS n. the ability to alternate sexual and asexual means of reproduction. |
| EISEGESIS | • eisegesis n. An interpretation, especially of Scripture, that reflects the personal ideas or viewpoint of the interpreter;… • EISEGESIS n. the interpretation of a text (as of the Bible) by reading into it one's own ideas. |
| EPICLESIS | • epiclesis n. (Christianity) The part of the Divine Liturgy or the Mass in which the celebrant invokes the Holy Spirit… • epiclesis n. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A particular appearance or aspect of a deity. • EPICLESIS n. (Greek) the act of calling on the Holy Spirit to consecrate the Eucharist. |
| EPITHESIS | • epithesis n. (Linguistics) The addition of a letter or sound at the end of a word, without changing its meaning. • epithesis n. (Medicine) The surgical correction of deformity or of crooked limbs. • epithesis n. (Medicine) A splint or other appliance to be worn. |
| OOGENESIS | • oogenesis n. (Biology) The formation and development of an oocyte or ovum. • oögenesis n. Alternative spelling of oogenesis. • OOGENESIS n. the enlargement and meiosis of an oogonium that produces an ovum, also OOGENY. |
| PARCHESIS | • PARCHESI n. (Hindi) a game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India, also PACHISI, PARCHEESI, PARCHISI. |
| PARENESIS | • parenesis n. (Rhetoric) Exhortation. • PARENESIS n. an exhortation, also PARAENESIS. |
| PARURESIS | • paruresis n. The inability to urinate in the presence of others. • PARURESIS n. a type of phobia in which the sufferer is unable to urinate in the presence of others. |
| PHRENESIS | • phrenesis n. (Obsolete, medicine) phrenitis. • phrenesis n. Madness, frenzy. • PHRENESIS n. delirium, frenzy. |
| PROTHESIS | • prothesis n. (Phonology) The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological… • prothesis n. (Christianity) The preparation and preliminary oblation of the Eucharistic bread and wine in the Divine… • prothesis n. (By extension) Credence table. |
| SYNERESIS | • syneresis n. Alternative spelling of synaeresis. • SYNERESIS n. the running together of vowels into a diphthong, also SYNAERESIS. |
| SYNIZESIS | • synizesis n. (Poetry) A poetic figure of speech in which two consecutive vowel sounds in the same word are pronounced… • synizesis n. (Prosody) The pronunciation of two separate vowels as a single one. • synizesis n. (Medicine) An obliteration of the pupil of the eye. |
| SYNTHESIS | • synthesis n. The formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things. • synthesis n. (Signal processing) Creation of a complex waveform by summation of simpler waveforms. • synthesis n. (Chemistry) The reaction of elements or compounds to form more complex compounds. |