psychal (sikal)

[ as psychalgia (sī-kal'ji-ä), n. [NL., ψυχή , soul, + άλγος , pain.] "The painful feeling at- tending mental action observed in melancholia. Psyche (si'kē), n. [L. Psyche (in myth.), ψυχή , breath, spirit, life, the spirit, soul, mind, etc., a departed spirit, ghost, etc., also a butterfly or moth the symbol of the soul, ψύχειν , breathe, blow.] 1. In cla ical myth., the per- sonified and deified soul or spirit, the be- loved of Eros, by whom she was alternately care ed and tormented. She was considered as a fair young girl, often with the wings of a butter- fly, and the butter- fly was her symbol. Cupid (Eros) and Psyche. - Capitoline Museum, Rome. 2. [l. c.] The human soul or spirit or mind. Psychology is the science of the psyche or soul. New Princeton Rev., V. 272. 3. The 16th planetoid, discovered by De Gas paris at Naples in 1852.-4. In zool.: (a) In entom., a genus of bombycid moths, erected by Schrank in 1801 (after Linnæus, 1735), and typical of the family Psychidæ. They have wingle females, and males with wings which scarcely reach beyond the tip of the abdomen. About 70 species are known, nearly all of which are European, one belonging to Australia and one to Ceylon. (b) In conch., a genus of gym no soma to us pteropods of the family Eurybiidæ. Also called Halo psyche.-5. [l. c.] In an at., the cerebrospinal nervous system: in Haeckel's vocabulary applied to the brain and spinal cord as the physiological center of the nervous system, in the activities of which he supposed the soul or spirit to subsist. In this use of the term, the psyche is divided into pro to psyche (forebrain), deutopsyche ('tween-brain), me so psyche (midbrain), meta psyche (hindbrain), epipsyche (afterbrain, or medulla oblong at a), and no to psyche (the spinal cord). 6. [l. c.] A large mirror, in which the whole person can be seen, usually hung on pivots at the sides, the whole being supported in a mova ble frame.