synteretic (sinteretik)

[ res is; preserving health; prophylactic. synteretics (sin-tē-retʼiks), n. [Pl. of synteretic (see -ics ).] Hygiene. syntexis (sin-tek's is), n. [NL., syntexis , σύντηξις , a melting or wasting away, consumption, 6139 fall away, synthronus epithet is used both of single formations, like these, and of cla es of expre ions; also of a whole language, or a period or cla of languages, according as expre ions of one or of the other cla prevail in each case. 3. In biol., of a general or comprehensive type of structure; combining in one organism characters which are to be specialized in several different organisms in the course of evolution; generalized, not specialized; undifferentiated. Thus, the Symphyla are a synthetic type, as combining characters of the cla es Myriapod a and Hexapod a. Since the general course of evolution is from generals to particu ing the same temperature. synthesis (sin'the-sis), n. [F. synthèse = Sp. sintésis = Pg. syn these, synthesis = It. sintesi, It [speech] should cary an orderly and good construction, which they called Synthesis. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 130. Geometrical deduction (and deduction in general) is called synthesis, because we introduce, at succe ive steps, the results of new principles. But in reasoning on the relations of space we sometimes go on separating truths into their component truths, and these into other component truths, and so on; and this is geometrical analysis, Whewell, Philos. of Inductive Sciences, II. xxiii. 2. Specifically-( a ) In gram., the combination of radical and formative elements into one word, as distinguished from their maintenance in the condition of separate words. See synthetic, 2. (b) In surg., an operation by which divided parts are united. (c) In chem., the uniting of elements into a compound; composition or combination: the opposite of analysis, which is the separation of a compound into its constituent parts: as, that water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen is proved both by analysis and by synthesis. (d) In acoustics, the combining of two or more simple sounds of different pitch, as those of several tuning-forks to produce or imitate a certain compound sound, as, for example, that of a piano-string. - Dynamic, pure, etc., synthesis. See the adjectives. - Synthesis of apprehension. See apprehension. - Synthesis of reproduction. See reproduction.