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anatripsology

anatripsology noun: the study or application of friction or rubbing as a remedy.

Noun

anatripsology (uncountable)

  1. The study or application of friction or rubbing as a remedy.
    • He was succeeded by one of his five doctor sons, Walter, a protagonist of the art of anatripsology. Rubbing with brandy had quite a vogue in Malvern.1953, W. H. McMenemey, “The Water Doctors of Malvern, with Special Reference to the Years 1842 to 1872”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, →PMID, page 7
    • […] They both agree on proposing, according to the dictates of ‘‘Anatripsology’’ [19], to apply frictions of ‘‘contused opium’’ and ‘‘milled nigricant pasque flower powder’’ dissolved in gastric juice extracted, in conformity with the Spallanzani method, from the starving stomachs of craws. […]
    • […] All the therapies of the time are mentioned: emetics, musk, opium, nappello, giusquiamo, Brera’s anatripsology and electric and chemical-gas applications. […]2010, Enrico Granieri et al., “An autopathography of tic douloureux at the beginning of the nineteenth century”, in Neurological Sciences, volume 31, number 6, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 852, 856

Origin of anatripsology

Borrowed from Italian anatripsologia, coined by Valeriano Luigi Brera in 1799, from Ancient Greek ἀνάτριψις (anátripsis, “rubbing”) + -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā).

Questions about anatripsology

What does anatripsology mean?
Anatripsology means the study or application of friction or rubbing as a remedy.
What part of speech is anatripsology?
Anatripsology is a noun.

Words near anatripsology in the dictionary

  1. anatoxins
  2. anatreme
  3. anatreptic
  4. anatreptically
  5. anatripsis
  6. anatripsology
  7. anatriptic
  8. anatron
  9. anatropal
  10. anatrophic
  11. anatropia

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