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Webster 1828 Edition


Analepsis

ANALEP'SIS

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Noun.
[Gr. to receive again.]
The augmentation of nutrition of an emaciated body; recovery of strength after a disease.

Definition 2024


analepsis

analepsis

English

Noun

analepsis (plural analepses)

  1. A form of flashback in which earlier parts of a narrative are related to others that have already been narrated
  2. (medicine) Recovery of strength after sickness.
  3. (medicine) A kind of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.

Translations


Spanish

Noun

analepsis f (uncountable)

  1. analepsis

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