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Synchysis


Syn′chy-sis

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Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to confound;
σύν
with + [GREEK] to pour.]
A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye.
Sparkling synchysis
(Med.)
,
a condition in which the vitreous humor is softened and contains sparkling scales of cholesterin.

Definition 2024


synchysis

synchysis

English

Noun

synchysis (plural synchyses)

  1. (poetics) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
  2. A confused mixture.
  3. (rhetoric) Confused arrangement of words in a sentence;

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