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Definition of Horripilation
1. Noun. Reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation.
Generic synonyms: Inborn Reflex, Innate Reflex, Instinctive Reflex, Physiological Reaction, Reflex, Reflex Action, Reflex Response, Unconditioned Reflex
Derivative terms: Horripilate, Horripilate
Definition of Horripilation
1. n. A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.
Definition of Horripilation
1. Noun. A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Horripilation
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Horripilation
Literary usage of Horripilation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archives of Surgery (1898)
"Although allied in nature to what we know as a rigor, or shivering, horripilation
is yet somewhat different. It concerns the skin, and in all probability ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"I. Spring or leap on one leg or foot horripilation, N. (Mea.) Shuddering, creeping.
2. ... Shuddering, horripilation. Horrors, n. pi. [With The prefixed. ..."
3. Manual of Homoeopathic Therapeutics: Intended Also as a Guide in the Study by Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen, Daniel Didier Roth (1847)
"Fever composed of heat, followed by horripilation. Cap», cocc. hell, natr-mur.
puls. ... 1780. horripilation, succeeded by a cold fit. Ars. bry. ipec. lach. ..."
4. The Pathology of Emotions: Physiological and Clinical Studies by Charles Féré (1899)
"When one observes ill some measure that horripilation is a phenomenon independent
of the ... The phenomena of the goose skin and horripilation which produce ..."
5. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"... a trembling; from hórreo, to shake for cold. F. horreur; G. Schauder.)
A shivering, or cold fit of ague. Also, the same as horripilation. horripilation. ..."
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