See Also: colloidoclasia(medicine)

personification (iou) and colloidoclasia (medicine)


personification (iou)



personification noun. M18.
[from PERSONIFY + -FICATION.]
The representation of a thing or abstraction as a person; Art the symbolic representation of a thing or abstraction by a human figure. M18.
B. Jowett The personifications of church and country as females. H. F. Tozer Scylla, who is the personification of the whirlpool.
b. An imaginary person or thing regarded as representing a thing or abstraction. M19.
A person or thing as a striking example or the embodiment of a quality etc. E19.
Saki Courtenay Youghal..youthfully elegant, the personification of decorative repose.
A dramatic representation or literary description of a person or character. rare. E19.
personificator noun = PERSONIFIER M19.

colloidoclasia (medicine)


colloidoclasia


Colloidoclasis

An obsolete term for a rupture of the colloid equilibrium in the body.

Origin: colloid + G. Klasis, fracture