Perkineanadj.
/pəːˈkɪnɪən/, U.S. /pərˈkɪniən/ Medicine. Now historical.
Of or relating to Perkinism or Elisha Perkins; = Perkinistic adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [adjective] > other miscellaneous treatments
sublimate1585
heroical1769
Perkinean1798
Perkinistic1803
heroic1818
adjuvant1834
aggressive1837
calmative1871
bacteriotherapeutic1886
mechanotherapeutic1915
inhalational1944
non-invasive1968
invasive1972
vegetablized1974
multidisciplinarian1985
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > anaesthetization, pain-killing, etc. > [adjective] > pain killing > methods using metallic tractors
Perkinean1798
Perkinistic1803
Perkinsian1880
1798 C. C. Langworthy (title) A view of the Perkinean electricity; or, an inquiry into the influence of metallic tractors.
1803 Times 18 Mar. 1/1 The Committee on the Establishment of the Perkinean Institution, give Notice, That general Meeting of the Subscribers to their Undertaking, will be held [etc.].
1866 J. L. Bishop Hist. Amer. Manuf. 69 His son established, in London, a Perkinean institution for the benefit of the poor.
1965 R. Silverberg Scientists & Scoundrels ii. 30 Perkins was a Quaker, and the Society of Friends backed him heavily, building a hospital called the Perkinean Institution, where all might be treated with the magnetic plates.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1798