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The f. supposed to direct the nutrition of living bodies; the power of an organism to form its own ti ues, potential f. See potential energy, under energy, psychic f. A f. by which the mind of one person is thought to influence the mind of another person, or even inanimate objects, without the intervention of bodily functions, resultant f. A f. which represents the sum of the action, as regards both intensity and direction, of two or more other f's. static f. See potential energy, under energy, twisting f. See torsion. [Lat., fortis, strong.] forceps (for's eps). An instrument made of two arms, either hinged at the ends or cro ed on the principle of the sci ors; used for grasping a part, or for compre ion or extracting, f. corp or is callosi. A designation of the fibers which curve backward into the posterior lobes of the brain from the posterior border of the corpus callosum. [Lat., forceps, a pair of tongs, from fores, the leaves of a door, + capere, to seize.] Forchheimer's sign (for's hi-mur). Presence, in German measles, of a red maculopapular eruption on the soft palate. [Frederick Forchheimer, Cincinnati physician, died 1853.] forcipre ure (for'si-pres-ur). Pre ure with a forceps; employed chiefly to control hemorrhage. [Lat., forceps, + pre ura, pre ure.] fore-. A prefix from Old Eng., for, having the sense of before or in front of. fore'arm. That portion of the upper limb which extends from the elbow to the wrist [B. N. A., anti brachium.'] fore conscious (for'kon-shus). In psychoanalysis^ the state of emergence from the unconscious but not yet into clear consciousne .