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a nervous disorder of females, usually most frequent at the catamenial period and in the unmarried. Indolent and luxurious habits, over-spoiling, disappointed affection, grief, etc., are among the chief causes.
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a nervous disease of women, occurring during the fertile period of life, first observed and described by Charcot. The disease is of a paroxysmal nature, and its symptoms may be divided into inter-paroxysmal and paroxysmal. The former consist of extreme sensitiveness over the region of one or both ovaries, and loss of tactile sensibility and complete complete insensibility to pain in one lateral half of the body, the side on which ovarian tenderness exists. Sight is sometimes implicated, manifested by a peculiar form of color blindness. All these impairments of sensation may be shifted to the other side of the body on the application of magnets and plates of metals, originally fected side regaining sensibility so long as the opposite one is insensible. The mental faculties are generally weakened and the disease is for the most part incurable.
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one of the Cinque Ports of England. In 1295 the French made a descent on Hythe, but were decisively repulsed. I I, i, the ninth letter and the third vowel in the English alphabet. It has long sound two principal sounds: (1) a , of one as in bind, find, and in all words wine, etc.; syllable ending in e, as in fine, , (2) a short sound, as in fin, bill, fill etc. three minor Besides these it has also sounds: (1) as in dirk, first, etc.; (2) , as in intrigue, mathe French sound chine, etc.; and (3) the consonantal by a vowel, sound of y, when followed , million, etc. With a in Christian digraphs, as in and e, i makes several wail, neigh, field, seize, friend; with o it forms a proper diphthong, as in oil. philologists called the A, i, and u are by them all the primitive vowels, and from sounds in the Aryan lanvarious vowel prefix I guage have been developed. As a , to reprei was used in Middle English sent the A. S. ge as in iwis = gewiss.
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