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anagnorisis (n.)[anagnorisis 词源字典]: c. 1800, from Latin, from Greek anagnorisis "recognition," from anagnorizein "to recognize."[anagnorisis etymology, anagnorisis origin, 英语词源]
crisis (n.): early 15c., from Latinized form of Greek krisis "turning point in a disease" (used as such by Hippocrates and Galen), literally "judgment, result of a trial, selection," from krinein "to separate, decide, judge," from PIE root *krei- "to sieve, discriminate, distinguish" (cognates: Greek krinesthai "to explain;" Old English hriddel "sieve;" Latin cribrum "sieve," crimen "judgment, crime," cernere (past participle cretus) "to sift, separate;" Old Irish criathar, Old Welsh cruitr "sieve;" Middle Irish crich "border, boundary"). Transferred non-medical sense is 1620s in English. A German term for "mid-life crisis" is Torschlusspanik, literally "shut-door-panic," fear of being on the wrong side of a closing gate.
phthisis (n.): 1520s, from Late Latin phthisis "consumption," from Greek phthisis "wasting, consumption; perishing, decay; waxing," from phthiein "to decay, waste away," from PIE root *dhgwhei- "to perish, die away" (cognates: Sanskrit ksitih "destruction," ksinati "perishes").
stare decisis (n.): the legal doctrine of being bound by precedents, Latin, literally "to stand by things decided" (see stet + decisive).
Addisonian crisis: "Acute insufficiency of corticosteroid secretion, seen especially in patients with Addison's (or other adrenal) disease, and manifested by hypotension and shock; an instance of this", 1930s; earliest use found in The Lancet.
rachischisis: "Defective closure of one or more vertebrae, usually involving the posterior part of the arch and often accompanied by myelocele; spina bifida", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in The Lancet. From rachi- + ancient Greek σχίσις cleavage (from σχίζειν to split + -σις).