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Anatomy (ANATOMIA)
ANATOMY. - From the Greek ἀνατομή = dissection, it is the science that through dissection studies the intimate structure of living beings.… -
Apoplexy (Stroke Or Apoplectic Fit) (APOPLESSIA (ICTUS O COLPO APOPLETTICO))
APOPLEXY (Stroke Or Apoplectic Fit). - Sudden abolition of sensation, motility and external consciousness of the individual (v. COMA) due… -
Asimbolia
ASIMBOLIA. - From the Greek à privative and σύμβολον, symbol, representative sign; the temporary or permanent disappearance of groups of… -
Astronomical Observatories (OSSERVATORI ASTRONOMICI)
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES. - I. HISTORICAL NOTES. - Leaving aside the very ancient Chinese astronomical observatories, about which our… -
Biology (BIOLOGIA)
BIOLOGY. - From the Greek βίος "life" and λόγος "discourse, reasoning," it is the science of life in its normal and pathological… -
Botany (BOTANICA)
BOTANY. - Botany, or phytology, is the science of plants. There are three principal aspects under which plants are considered:… -
Cerebral Softening (RAMMOLLIMENTO CEREBRALE)
CEREBRAL SOFTENING. - The concept of cerebral softening is fairly precise and defined from an anatomo-pathological point of view, much less… -
Chorology (COROLOGIA)
CHOROLOGY. - The term c. (from χάρα, land and λάγος, discourse) designates the study of the geographical distribution of living beings:… -
Chronotope (CRONOTOPO)
CHRONOTOPE. - This word, which modern physics has taken from Gioberti, denotes the union of space and time, conceived together as a single… -
Climacteric Age (CLIMATERICA, ETÀ)
CLIMACTERIC, AGE. — Attribution given by the ancients to certain periods of life, recurring at fixed times (every seven or nine years);… -
Experimental Psychology (PSICOLOGIA SPERIMENTALE)
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. - The use of the experimental method in psychology, that is, the carrying out of observations in a systematic way,… -
Frenasthenia, Frenasthenics (FRENASTENIA, FRENASTENICI)
FRENASTHENIA, FRENASTHENICS. - The term is due to the Italian alienist Andrea Verga and was brought back into favor by S. De Sanctis, who… -
Gas, Kinetic Theory of (GAS, TEORIA CINETICA DEI)
GAS, Kinetic Theory of. - I. GENERALITIES. - Since the 17th century the word g. has designated that particular state of aggregation of any… -
Human Races (RAZZE UMANE)
HUMAN RACES. - I. DEFINITION. - That group of men is called a h. r. which, having in common a particular hereditary patrimony, presents… -
Hypnotics (IPNOTICI)
HYPNOTICS. - All those agents that induce or provoke sleep by depressing the excitability of nerve cells or by bringing about transient… -
Hypnotism (IPNOTISMO)
HYPNOTISM. - From ὕπνος = sleep. This name (synonyms: animal magnetism, mesmerism) designates a state of suspension of the individual's… -
Hysteria (Morbus Sacer) (ISTERISMO (MAL CADUCO, MORBUS SACER))
HYSTERIA (MAL CADUCO, morbus sacer). - A psychoneurosis characterized by particular anomalies of the neuro-psychological equilibrium, of… -
Meteorological Organization (ORGANIZZAZIONE METEOROLOGICA)
METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION. - Meteorology as a science owes its development to air navigation and radio, inasmuch as it becomes… -
Optics (OTTICA)
OPTICS. - This name originally denoted that part of physics which deals with the modes of luminous phenomena. By light is meant a something… -
Paleoanthropology (Human Paleontology) (PALEOANTROPOLOGIA (PALEONTOLOGIA UMANA))
PALEOANTHROPOLOGY (HUMAN PALEONTOLOGY). - It is the science that studies the human skeletal remains found as fossils in prehistoric sites,… -
Paleontology (PALEONTOLOGIA)
PALEONTOLOGY. - From the Greek παλαιός "ancient," δυ "to be," and λόγος "discourse": it is the science that studies fossils, that is, the… -
Pregnancy Toxicoses (Gestosis, Pregnancy Toxemias, Pregnancy Toxicoses) (INTOSSICAZIONI GRAVIDICHE (GESTOSI, TOSSIEMIE GRAVIDICHE, TOSSICOSI GRAVIDICHE))
PREGNANCY TOXICOSES (Gestosis, Pregnancy Toxemias, Pregnancy Toxicoses). - Under this designation it is intended to group together all… -
Radiations (RADIAZIONI)
RADIATIONS. - Under the generic name of r. one may designate both the flow of particles or corpuscles and that of electromagnetic waves:… -
Regulation (in Biology) (REGOLAZIONE (IN BIOLOGIA))
REGULATION (IN BIOLOGY). - This term designates one of the fundamental phenomena of living beings, whereby an organism tends to "regulate"… -
Rocks (ROCCE)
ROCKS. - This is the name given to aggregates of one or more minerals, forming part of the lithosphere as independent geological units.… -
Seismology (SISMOLOGIA)
SEISMOLOGY. - The fundamental task of s[eismology] is the study of the physical characteristics of the Earth's interior. To this end, it… -
Surgical Psychotherapy (Psychosurgery) (PSICOTERAPIA CHIRURGICA (PSICOCHIRURGIA))
SURGICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY (PSYCHOSURGERY). - One of the most recent branches of modern medicine; it comprises a whole series of neurosurgical… -
Toxoinfective Psychoses (PSICOSI TOSSINFETTIVE)
TOXOINFECTIVE PSYCHOSES. - Mental syndromes that arise in the course of general diseases and of infectious diseases not particularly…