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A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."
An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence.
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A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously induced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.
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Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome.
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A genus of rodents, including the porcupine.
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Producing hysteria; as, the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria.
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The Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.
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Like, or allied to, the porcupines; -- said of a group (Hystricomorpha) of rodents.
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Like or pertaining to the porcupines.
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A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with.
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That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.
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A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron.
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A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.
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Alt. of Hysterical
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Of or pertaining to hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; convulsive, fitful.
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Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known.
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A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter.
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Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened.
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Hysteria.
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A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body.
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