Medical Definition of Oniric
1. 1. Pertaining to dreams. 2. Pertaining to the clinical state of oneirophrenia. Synonym: oniric. Origin: G. Oneiros, dream (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oniric
Literary usage of Oniric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1900)
"... an oniric stigma. AFC The Englishwoman's Year Book and Directory, 1900.
Edited by E. JANES. London, A. & C. Black; New York, The Macmillan Co., ..."
2. The Semi-insane and the Semi-responsible: (Demifous Et Demiresponsables) by Joseph Grasset (1907)
"As long ago as 1881 Lasegue showed that alcoholic delirium especially is a dream,
and Re'gis in 1893 studied and described the occurrence of oniric delirium ..."
3. Practitioner's medical dictionary by George Milbry Gould (1910)
"... a mass; To/jij, a cutting]. The operation of incising a tumor or other swelling.
Oneiric, oniric (o-ni'-rik) ..."