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Definition of Asynchronism

1. Noun. The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times. "The stimulus produced a desynchronizing of the brain waves"

Definition of Asynchronism

1. Noun. asynchrony ¹

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Definition of Asynchronism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asynchronism

Literary usage of Asynchronism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the heart and thoracic aorta by Byrom Bramwell (1884)
"Further, I am of opinion that reduplication of the first sound can only occur when—in addition to asynchronism— the duration of one or other, ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1902)
"In other words, a partial asynchronism occurs. ... At the same time they accept asynchronism as a cause of the reduplicated second sound, and thereby admit ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on Medical Diagnosis for Students and Physicians by John Herr Musser (1913)
"resulting in asynchronism of closure of the two valves. Normally a split second sound may be heard after severe exercise or upon holding the breath as a ..."

4. The Theory and practice of medicine by Frederick Thomas Roberts (1884)
"Doubling of the second sound is almost universally regarded as being due to asynchronism in the closure and tension of the aortic and pulmonary valves; ..."

5. Transactions of the ... Session of the American Institute of Homœopathy by American Institute of Homeopathy Session (1895)
"In ventricular asynchronism, dependent upon functional aberration of the cardiac ... While not a reliable drug in the asynchronism of mural degenerative ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"In other words, that a partial asynchronism occurs. He admits that this doctrine is very heterodox, as the upholders of strict synchronism deny the ..."

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