Definition of Descensions

1. Noun. (plural of descension) ¹

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Definition of Descensions

1. descension [n] - See also: descension

Lexicographical Neighbors of Descensions

descending neuritis
descending node
descending nucleus of the trigeminus
descending palatine artery
descending part of aorta
descending part of duodenum
descending part of facial canal
descending posterior branch
descending s
descending scapular artery
descending tract of trigeminal nerve
descendingly
descends
descension
descensional
descensions
descensive
descensories
descensory
descensus
descensus ventriculi
descent
descents
deschool
deschooled
deschooling
deschools
desciption

Literary usage of Descensions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1841)
"At the close of these eight hundred descensions, he engaged in medical practice, ... These eight hundred descensions being all ended, he made still eight ..."

2. Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, Or Quadripartite: Being Four Books of the Influence by Ptolemy, Proclus, Philip Ranger, J. M. Ashmand (1822)
"... Britain (51° 30' N.), with similar positions of the preceding and succeeding places adverted to in the text. 'These meetings and descensions are ..."

3. The HomŒopathic treatment of the diseases of females and infants at the breast by Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr (1856)
"From falling of the vagina we have to .distinguish hernia, that is descensions where other organs are engaged in a tumor in the interior of the vagina or ..."

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