Aesthesia :: Aesthesia (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia.

Aesthesiometer :: Aesthesiometer (n.) Alt. of Esthesiomete.

Aesthesis :: Aesthesis (n.) Sensuous perception.

Anaesthesia :: Anaesthesia (n.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic.

Anaesthesis :: Anaesthesis (n.) See Anaesthesia.

Anesthesia :: Anesthesia (a.) Alt. of Anestheti.

Anthesis :: Anthesis (n.) The period or state of full expansion in a flower.

Antimetathesis :: Antimetathesis (n.) An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

Antithesis :: Antithesis (n.) An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself. He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen..

Antithesis :: Antithesis (n.) The second of two clauses forming an antithesis.

Antithesis :: Antithesis (n.) Opposition; contrast.

Apothesis :: Apothesis (n.) A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc..

Apothesis :: Apothesis (n.) A dressing room connected with a public bath.

Coenesthesis :: Coenesthesis (n.) Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system..

Diathesis :: Diathesis (n.) Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases..

Dysaesthesia :: Dysaesthesia (n.) Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch..

Epenthesis :: Epenthesis (n.) The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in nimble from AS. n/mol..

Epithesis :: Epithesis (n.) The addition of a letter at the end of a word, without changing its sense; as, numb for num, whilst for whiles..

Esthesiometer :: Esthesiometer (n.) An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered..

Esthesiometer :: Esthesiometer (n.) Same as Aesthesiometer.

Exanthesis :: Exanthesis (n.) An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

Hemianaesthesia :: Hemianaesthesia (n.) Anaesthesia upon one side of the body.

Hyperaesthesia :: Hyperaesthesia (n.) A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it..

Hyperesthesia :: Hyperesthesia (n.) Same as Hyperaesthesia.

Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer..

Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis..

Kinaesthesis :: Kinaesthesis (n.) The perception attendant upon the movements of the muscles.

Mathesis :: Mathesis (n.) Learning; especially, mathematics..

Metathesis :: Metathesis (n.) Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager..

Metathesis :: Metathesis (n.) A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body..

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