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anachoresis

anachoresis noun: the transportation of foreign bodies via blood or lymph and subsequent collection at a site of inflammation.

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
    • The phenomenon of anachoresis has been demonstrated in animal models both to non-dental inflamed tissues and inflamed dental pulps.2002, John Ide Ingle, Leif K. Bakland, Endodontics, →ISBN, page 67
  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
    • In this case though, anachoresis, departure from the world into the desert originally in Egypt and Palestine and later throughout Christendom, was a form of protest against the world, an expression of a radical craving of living in a more existentially authentic way the Christian spiritual values.2012, A. Green, V. Viaene, Religious Internationals in the Modern World, →ISBN

anachoresis meaning in Kannada

anachoresis in Kannada

ನೆಲೆಸೆಳೆತ

Examples of anachoresis in a sentence

  • It has been claimed that microorganisms can reach the pulp by anachoresis.2010, Louis H. Berman, Kenneth M. Hargreaves, Steven R. Cohen, Cohen's Pathways of the Pulp Expert Consult, →ISBN, page 562:
  • In the voice of Antony, for example, Cassian describes anachoresis as leading to a more sublime perfection than is available to those living within a community.2013, Steven D. Driver, John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture, →ISBN, page 91:

Forms of anachoresis

pluralanachoreses

Origin of anachoresis

From Ancient Greek ἀναχώρησις (anakhṓrēsis).

Questions about anachoresis

What does anachoresis mean?
Anachoresis means the transportation of foreign bodies via blood or lymph and subsequent collection at a site of inflammation.
What is anachoresis in Kannada?
Anachoresis in Kannada is ನೆಲೆಸೆಳೆತ. See Anachoresis meaning in Kannada.
How do you use anachoresis in a sentence?
It has been claimed that microorganisms can reach the pulp by anachoresis.
What part of speech is anachoresis?
Anachoresis is a noun.
What is the plural of anachoresis?
The plural of anachoresis is anachoreses.

Words near anachoresis in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anachoresis (page history and authors); anachoresis (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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