Ecballium (ekbalium)

[NL., Squirting Cucumber ( Ecballium Elaterium). IMG:content-0183.png:[blocks in formation] A complete neural circulation, however, is by no means the nece ary condition of a sensibility independently located in eccentric portions of the human body such as Mr. Lewes supposes. G. S. Hall , German Culture, p. 234. 2. In med., not originating or existing in the center or central parts; due to peripheral causes: as, eccentric irritation; eccentric convulsions (that is, convulsions due to peripheral irritation).-3. Not coincident as regards center; specifically, in geom., not having the same center: applied to circles and spheres which have not the same center, and consequently are not parallel: opposed to concentric, having a common center. Hence-4. Not coincident as regards course or aim; tending to a different end or result; devious. Whatsoever affairs pa such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends, which must needs be often ec centric to the ends of his master or State. Bacon , Wisdom for a Man's Self (ed. 1887). Women's Affections are eccentrick to common Apprehen. sion; whereof the two poles are Pa ion and In cons tansy. Baker, Chronicles, p. 226. 5. Deviating, or characterized by deviation, from recognized, stated, or usual methods or from its stalk, and at the same moment forcibly expels the seeds and juice from the aperture left at the base. A precipitate obtained from the juice is the elaterium of medicine, a very powerful hydragogue cathartic. See ela terium.