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erethism Path.|ˈɛrɪθɪz(ə)m|
[ad. Fr. éréthisme, ad. Gr. ἐρεθισµός, f. ἐρεθίζειν to irritate.
(A misspelling erythism, due to false etymology, occurs in many medical books.)]
Excitement of an organ or tissue in an unusual degree; also transf. morbid over-activity of the mental powers or passions.
1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 370 Producing.. a very useful perspiration, without augmenting the irritation or erethism in those parts. 1833Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 104 Mercurial erethism. The word erethismus..has hitherto been almost exclusively confined to that species of erethism which some⁓times arises from the use of mercury. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xliii. (1870) II. 456 The powers are in excessive vigour,—at least in excessive erethism or excitation. 1847Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 56/2 His stomach was in a continued state of erethism. 1859Bucknill in Sat. Rev. Sept. 288 A fancy usually so cold and impassive, but now in agonising erethism. |