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Traditional English :: hysterectomy
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hystolysis.html - n. (pl. -ies) the surgical removal of the womb. hysterectomize v.tr. (also -ise). [Gk hustera womb + -ECTOMY] |
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Traditional English :: hysteresis
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hystolysis.html - n. Physics the lagging behind of an effect when its cause varies in amount etc., esp. of magnetic induction behind the magnetizing force. [Gk husteresis f. hustereo be behind f. husteros coming after] |
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Traditional English :: hysteria
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hystolysis.html - n.
1 a wild uncontrollable emotion or excitement.
2 a functional disturbance of the nervous system, of psychoneurotic origin. [mod.L (as HYSTERIC)] |
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Traditional English :: hysteric
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hystolysis.html - n. & adj. --n. 1 (in pl.) a a fit of hysteria. b colloq. overwhelming mirth or laughter (we were in hysterics).
2 a hysterical person. --adj. = HYSTERICAL. [L f. Gk husterikos of the womb (hustera), hysteria being thought to occur more frequently in women than in men and to be associated with the womb] |
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Traditional English :: hysterical
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hystolysis.html - adj. 1 of or affected with hysteria. 2 morbidly or uncontrolledly emotional. 3 colloq. extremely funny or amusing. |
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Traditional English :: hysteron proteron
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hystolysis.html - n. Rhet. a figure of speech in which what should come last is put first; an inversion of the natural order (e.g. I die! I faint! I fail!). [LL f. Gk husteron proteron the latter (put in place of) the former] |
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