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Definition of Lachesis
1. Noun. The Greek goddess of fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
Definition of Lachesis
1. Proper noun. (Greek god) One of the three Fates, or Moirae, daughter of Zeus and Themis; the measurer of the each thread of life. ¹
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Literary usage of Lachesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions (1879)
"lachesis. " She says her medicine is poison," and takes it with bad grace.—lachesis.
... lachesis " Inflammation of the ovaries going from left to right. ..."
2. A Clinical Materia Medica: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the by Ernest Albert Farrington (1887)
"NEXT we take the action of lachesis on nose, throat and chest, so far as catarrhs
are ... lachesis produces nasal catarrh, watery discharge from the nose, ..."
3. A Manual of pharmacodynamics by Richard Hughes (1899)
"I shall devote to-day's lecture to the medicine we call lachesis, ... This collection
contains symptoms obtained from the lance-headed viper, lachesis ..."
4. A Clinical materia medica by Ernest Albert Farrington (1897)
"lachesis (continued). lachesis causes in the male an increased lasciviousness
with diminution of ... Upon the female organs, lachesis acts very powerfully. ..."
5. Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the by William H. Burt (1896)
"lachesis has a powerful action upon this system, centering especially upon the
... Higgins, says : "In lachesis, we see the nerve centers attacked first, ..."
6. Lectures on Materia Medica by Carroll Dunham (1879)
"lachesis. THE very excellent and convincing article on lachesis by Dr. Lippe in
... Those who do not use lachesis in their practice give various reasons for ..."
7. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1879)
"Authority. (EW Berridge, MD, New York Journ. of Horn., vol. ii, 1874, p. 461.)
1, Berridge, took repeated doses of cm. (Fincke), for Vipera lachesis, ..."
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