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Definition of Frictions
1. friction [n] - See also: friction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frictions
Literary usage of Frictions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On disorders of digestion, their consequences and treatment by Thomas Lauder Brunton (1886)
"frictions.—On distingue les frictions en frictions sèches et en ... Les frictions
humides s'exécutent au moyen d'une brosse en flanelle ou d'un tampon en un ..."
2. On the wasting diseases of infants and children by Eustace Smith (1884)
"frictions can be employed with the hand alone, with stimulating liniments, ...
The frictions should be used to the whole body if there is no tenderness. ..."
3. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"Joint frictions and Tendon frictions. FT Lord has called attention to ...
Since these frictions can be felt as well as heard they are mentioned here. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1832)
"... of New Jersey, in relation to the external treatment of collapsed cases of
cholera, by the use of frictions of mercurial ointment, camphor and capsicum. ..."
5. NATO's Future: Toward a New Transatlantic Bargain by Stanley R. Sloan (1995)
"... FINANCIAL frictions AND THE ALLIANCE The American poet Carl Sandburg once
wrote, "Money is like manure- good only when spread around. ..."
6. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon (1824)
"The cause is, for that in frictions the inward parts are at rest; which in exercise
are beaten, many times, too much : and for the same reason, ..."
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