anachoresis
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The transportation of foreign bodies via blood or lymph and subsequent collection at a site of inflammation.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Anachoresis, or anachoretic pulpitis, is, therefore, a pulpitis of systemic origin."
- "The phenomenon of anachoresis has been demonstrated in animal models both to non-dental inflamed tissues and inflamed dental pulps."
- "It has been claimed that microorganisms can reach the pulp by anachoresis."
- "It's possible to have a contemporary version of (secular) anachoresis."
- "In this case though, anachoresis, departure from the world into the desert originally in Egypt and Palestine and later throughout Christendom, was a form of protest against the world, an expression of a radical craving of living in a more existentially authentic way the Christian spiritual values."
- "In the voice of Antony, for example, Cassian describes anachoresis as leading to a more sublime perfection than is available to those living within a community."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀναχώρησις (anakhṓrēsis).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ἀναχώρησις