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anachoreses

anachoreses is the plural of anachoresis.

Meaning of anachoresis

Noun

anachoresis (countable and uncountable, plural anachoreses)

  1. The transportation of foreign bodies via blood or lymph and subsequent collection at a site of inflammation.
    • Anachoresis, or anachoretic pulpitis, is, therefore, a pulpitis of systemic origin.1963, Pdm practical dental, page 24
  2. Retreat from the world into a solitary life.
    • It's possible to have a contemporary version of (secular) anachoresis.2012, Roland Barthes, How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces, →ISBN

Questions about anachoreses

What is anachoreses the plural of?
Anachoreses is the plural of anachoresis.

Words near anachoreses in the dictionary

  1. anacaulase
  2. anacephalaeosis
  3. anacetrapib
  4. anacharis
  5. anachitis
  6. anachoreses
  7. anachoresis
  8. anachoret
  9. anachorete
  10. anachoretes
  11. anachoretic

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