English Explanatory Dictionary

anachoresis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The transportation of foreign bodies via blood or lymph and subsequent collection at a site of inflammation.
  2. Retreat from the world into a solitary life.

Word forms

anachoresis anachoreses

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀναχώρησις (anakhṓrēsis).

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