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  • ATONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ATONY

    ἀτονία, in medicine, etc. a want of tone or tension; or a relaxation of the solids of a human body; occasioning a loss of strength, faintings, etc. See TONE, SOLID, FIBRE, RELAXATION, etc. The word is compounded of the privative α, and τόνος, I stretch....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Medicine
  • ABORTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABORTION

    sudden Passions, Frights, &c. Other Cautes are the largeness and heaviness of the Fœtus, Irritations of the Womb, Relaxation of the Ligaments of the Placenta, Weakness, and want of Nourishment in the Fœtus ;excess of eating, long fasting or waking, the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Medicine
  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction
  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics
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