Cyclopædia
Assuming relaxation is required, the following 4 results were found.
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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
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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
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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
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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