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单词 metasyncrisis
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metasyncrisisn.

Brit. /ˌmɛtəˈsɪŋkrᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəˈsɪŋkrəsəs/
Inflections: Plural metasyncrises.
Forms: 1500s metasyncresis, 1600s– metasyncrisis.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μετασύγκρισις.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek μετασύγκρισις alteration of the state of the pores (Galen) < ancient Greek μετα- meta- prefix + σύγκρισις aggregation, physical constitution (see syncrisis n.).The term is attributed by Galen to Thessalus (compare quots. 18472, 1926). It is also recorded as a Greek term in the post-classical Latin medical writer Caelius (?5th cent.: compare quot. 1926), who was himself translating a Greek text.
Medicine. Now historical.
With reference to Hellenistic Greek (Methodist) medicine: restoration of the pores and interstices of the body to a normal state, usually as part of a cycle of rigorous treatment and respite. Also in extended use (see quot. 18472).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > discharge of putrid matter > through pores
metasyncrisis1847
?1541 R. Copland tr. Galen Terapeutyke sig. Ejv Metasyncresis, which may sygnyfy as moche as Metaporopoesis in Greke. That is to say, mutacyon of the state of pores & smal conduytes.
1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 197 Metasyncrisis is the Operation of a Medicine externally applied, which fetches out the Humours from their closest Recesses.
1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 38 The most efficacious of those methods to which the Thessali of modern times are indebted for their reputation and their riches, are, in fact, nothing more than metasyncrises.
1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 38 The Methodist, Thessalus..the inventor of Metasyncrisis (μετασύγκρισις) (recorporatio), a method which still forms our principal..corporeal means in the treatment of insanity.
1926 C. G. Cumston Introd. Hist. Med. x. 139 By carefully reading Caelius one will be able to understand the famous metasyncrisis of Thessalus... Metasyncrisis simply consists in renovating the pores of the organism, and its process is composed of several periods, which together form a cycle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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