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enthetic

[ en-thet-ik ]

adjective

  1. introduced from without, as diseases propagated by inoculation.


enthetic

/ É›²Ôˈθɛ³Ùɪ°ì /

adjective

  1. (esp of infectious diseases) introduced into the body from without
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of enthetic1

1865–70; < Greek ±ð²Ô³Ù³ó±ð³Ù¾±°ìó²õ, equivalent to é²Ô³Ù³ó±ð³Ù ( os ) (verbid of ±ð²Ô³Ù¾±³Ù³óé²Ô²¹¾± to put in, equivalent to en- en- 2 + ³Ù¾±³Ù³óé²Ô²¹¾± to put) + -ikos -ic
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of enthetic1

C19: from Greek enthetikos, from entithenai to put in
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Example Sentences

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Is a special proclivity to any of the group of enthetic febrile diseases ever inherited?

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Two important factors, especially, must be kept in view in comparing the causation of diseases in colder and warmer countries—namely, the difference in the articles of food partaken of in each, and the external sources of enthetic disorders; e.g. endemic and epidemic fevers, etc.

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While endeavoring to ascertain the limits of our present knowledge upon these questions, let us first notice what are the most positive facts concerning them, some of which are common to the whole group or class of what have been, since Liebig, often called zymotic,7 but latterly more often enthetic, diseases.

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Other zymotic or enthetic diseases.

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That such organisms are the essential and direct causes of enthetic maladies by invading the human and other living bodies as parasites, consuming and disorganizing their tissues, blood corpuscles,20 etc.

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