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The digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by proteolytic ferments.

See Prosthesis. Dunglison.

False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects. Forsyth.

The state of being affected with psora. [Obs.]

A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- --) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that hysteria is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental his…

= Psychanalysis, Psychanalytic.

Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection.

Any vital action or activity. Mivart.

The arrangement of feathers in definite areas.

Same as Pterylosis.

Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.

See Water brash, under Brash.

New birth; renewal. A continued regenesis of dissenting sects. H. Spenser.

gainst; to withstand; to obstruct. That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist. Milton.

The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. 1. Macc. xi. 38.

A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly.

Making resistance; resisting. -- n.

One who resists.

Making much resistance.

The quality of being resistible; resistibleness.