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Definition of 'syntexis'

English

Noun

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  • (geology) A change in the structure of magma by melting or the assimilation of a different type of rock.
  • * 1857 , in the Geological Magazine , volume 85, page 355:
    • [...] is immaterial whether this magma is derived from a distinct earth shell, or is produced by syntexis between the sima and the sialic rocks.
  • (medicine) emaciation or wasting away
  • * 1885 , Dujardin-Beaumetz, Indications for Antithermic Medication'', in the ''New York Medical Abstract , volume 5, page 443:
    • The patient feels no longer the irritating surface heat which so fatigues him; the syntexis or colliquation is less; he sleeps better, and this antithermic medication does well with forced feeding, [...]

    See also

    * syntaxis

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