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Definition of Entastic
1. a. Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.
Definition of Entastic
1. Adjective. (medicine) Of or relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms. ¹
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Definition of Entastic
1. entasis [adj] - See also: entasis
Medical Definition of Entastic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Entastic
Literary usage of Entastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"... is the ordinary action with which life ceases: but there are others that render
it of a mixed character, the entastic alternating with the clonic; ..."
2. Medical Botany; Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants ...by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1834)
"... without seriously affecting the head, as in cases of great general ov nervous
debility, the effect is a clonic instead of an entastic or tetanic spasm. ..."
3. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"From this point, as from a centre, the spasmodic action seems to have spread in
every direction, and under a clonic or entastic form to have seized upon ..."
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