antiperistaltic

[Gr. ἀντί (anti) = against, and Eng. peristaltic. In Fr. peri staltique; Port. antiperistaltico.] Opposed to peristaltic (q.v.), or pertaining to anti-peristalsis. [PERISTALTIC.] ". an inverted direction of the action of the muscular ti ue of the intestines ( anti - peristaltic action)."-Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat., vol. ii., p. 237. ăn-ti-pěr-is-ta-sis, s. A [In Ger. antiperistase; Sp. antiperistasis ; Gr. ἀντιπερίστασις ( antiperistasis ): ἀντί (anti) = against, and περίστασις ( per i stasis ) = a standing round,.. circumstance; περιίστημι (per i i stem i) = to stand round: περί (peri) = round about, and ἵστημι ( histemi ) = to make to stand.j term used by Aristotle and others to signify the heightening of any quality by the reaction produced in it by the action of its opposite. Thus in warm countries the influence of even hot air blowing on water in porous ve els is to cool the water. So also an unjust attack on one's character will often raise instead of impairing it. Bacon uses the Greek accusative. which is that they term cold or hot per anti per ist as in , that is, environing by contraries, Bacon Works (ed. 1765), vol. i; Colours of Good and Evil , ch, vii., p. 441.