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Definition of Descensions
1. descension [n] - See also: descension
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descensions
Literary usage of Descensions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1841)
"At the close of these eight hundred descensions, he engaged in medical practice,
... These eight hundred descensions being all ended, he made still eight ..."
2. Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, Or Quadripartite: Being Four Books of the Influence by Ptolemy, Proclus, Philip Ranger, J. M. Ashmand (1822)
"... Britain (51° 30' N.), with similar positions of the preceding and succeeding
places adverted to in the text. 'These meetings and descensions are ..."
3. The HomŒopathic treatment of the diseases of females and infants at the breast by Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr (1856)
"From falling of the vagina we have to .distinguish hernia, that is descensions
where other organs are engaged in a tumor in the interior of the vagina or ..."
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