Examples
“Marry whilst thou mayst, donec viventi canities abest morosa, whilst thou art yet able, yet lusty, [5958] Elige cui dicas, tu mihi sola places, make thy choice, and that freely forthwith, make no delay, but take thy fortune as it falls.”
“Rayer quotes cases of canities of the whole of one side of the body.”
“Voigtel mentions the occurrence of canities almost suddenly.”
“Dewees 6.61 reports a case of puerperal convulsions in a patient under his care which was attended with sudden canities.”
“In the family of both parents there was stated to be congenital premature canities, and some white hairs had been observed even in childhood.”
“Michelson of Königsberg describes a curious case in a barrister of twenty-three affected with partial canities.”
“Giovannini describes a case of canities unguium in a patient of twenty-nine, following an attack of typhoid fever.”
“He closes his brief communication on the subject with the belief that it is quite possible for black hair to turn white in one night or even in a less time, although Hebra and Kaposi discredit sudden canities (Duhring).”
“` ` In the Canada Journal of Medical Science, 1882, p. 113, is reported a case of sudden canities due to business-worry.”
“Prentiss, in Science, October 3, 1890, has collected numerous instances of sudden canities, several of which will be given: --”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘canities’.
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250 Spelling Words
A selected sampling of words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
orecchiette, rhabdomancy, guayabera, orthoepy, opisthenar, maguey, proem, ciabatta, cioppino, banns, concinnity, asthenia and 237 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Physiological Terms
Terms used in physiology
contabescence, infix, instill, demulcent, pachystichous, pachyhaemous, adrenal, suprarenal, adrenocorticotropic, remedial, flaccid, phosphene and 136 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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2012 National Bee Final Round
The words from the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee championship round.
psammon, dedans, sahel, harengiform, canities, ridotto, maieutic, turnverein, otosteon, ajimez, porwigle, melopoeia and 18 more...
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hair terms
being a beauty school drop-out and all...
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