gynethusia (jinethusia)

[Prop. *gynæ cothysia, IMG:content-2843.png:[blocks in formation] gynecocracy, gynæcocracy (jin-ē-kok'ra-si), gyngevret, n. An obsolete n. [Also gynocracy, and sometimes improp. gyneocracy, gynæocracy, gynecological, gynecological (ji-ne-ko-loj'i kal), a. [ Of or pertaining to gynecology. gynecologist, gynæcologist (jin-e-kol'ō-jist), IMG:content-2844.png:[blocks in formation] n. [ in, or engaged in the study and practice of, gynecology. gynecology, gynæcology (jin-ē-kol'ō-ji), n. [ gynecomasty, gynecomasty (ji-nē kō-mast i), n. [ The mam me of men will, under special excitation, yield milk; there are various cases of gynecomasty on record, and in famines infants whose mothers have died have been thus saved. H. Spencer, Study of Sociol., p. 441. gyneconitis, gynæconitis (ji-ne-kō-nītis), n. [ γυναικωνίτις , equiv. to γυναικεῖον , gynæceum: see gynæceum.] 1. Same as gynąceum , 1. I often saw parties of women mount the stairs to the Gynæconitis. R. F. Burton , El-Medinah, p. 190. 2. In the early ch. and in the Gr. Ch., the part of the church occupied by women. Formerly the women of the congregation occupied either the northern side of the church or galleries at the sides and over the narthex. In Greek churches they take their places in the narthex or at the sides of the church. The women's gallery, or gynæconitis , formed an imp or tant part of the earlier Byzantine churches. J. M. Neale , Eastern Church, i. 206. gynecophore, gynæcophore (ji-nē kō-for), n. [ The formidable Bilharzia, the male of which is the larger and retains the female in a gynæcophore . Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 178.