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ἕλκωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕλκωσις ἕλκωσεως

Structure: ἑλκωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e(lko/w

Sense

  1. ulceration

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἕλκωσισ δὲ καὶ κυήσεωσ ἀρχή μῖξισ γὰρ οὐκ ἔστι τῶν μὴ πρὸσ ἄλληλα πεπονθότων. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 242)
  • Ἐσ δὲ ταύτην, ἔξωθεν μὲν κατάπλασμα, κατάχρισμα, ἄλειμμα, γυμνότησ ὅλου καὶ μέρεοσ καὶ σκέπη ὅλου καὶ μέρεοσ, θερμασίη καὶ ψύξισ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον, καὶ στύψισ καὶ ἕλκωσισ καὶ δηγμὸσ καὶ λίπασμα‧ ἔνδοθεν δὲ τινά τε τῶν εἰρημένων, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοισ αἰτίη ἄδηλοσ καὶ μέρει καὶ ὅλῳ, τινί τε καὶ οὔ τινι. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xvi.1)
  • Ἢν μὲν οὖν εὖ εἰδῇσ ὅτι ἱκανῶσ τὰ ὀστέα ἀπίθυνται ἐν τῇσι προτέρῃσιν ἐπιδέσεσι, καὶ μήτε κνησμοί τινεσ λυπέωσι, μήτε τισ ἕλκωσισ μηδεμία ὑποπτεύηται εἶναι, ἐᾷν χρὴ ἐπιδεδέσθαι ἐν τοῖσι νάρθηξιν, ἔστ’ ἂν ὑπὲρ εἴκοσιν ἡμέρασ γίνηται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 7.1)
  • ἐπιθυμία δὲ δεινὴ τοῦ δέξασθαί τι ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ, οὐ γὰρ ἦν μὴ οὐχ ὑπουργεῖν, καὶ ἕλκωσισ τῶν τε ἐντέρων καὶ μάλιστα τοῦ κόλου δειναὶ ἀλγηδόνεσ, καὶ φλέγμα ὑγρὸν περὶ τοὺσ πόδασ καὶ διαυγέσ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 201:1)

Synonyms

  1. ulceration

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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