Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a morbid condition of some part of the body, as the brain or the liver, in which it becomes softened.
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The distress becomes more and more complicated; disorganizations, alterations of the fluids, disturbances of the assimilative sphere, nervous derangements from simple illusions of the sentient sphere, and occasional trembling and twitching, to spasmodic and convulsive movements, and final extinction of nervous power, marasmus of the spinal marrow or a ramollissement of the brain; these are the consequences of such miasmatic complications.
Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent C. W. Wolf
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Shakspeare, indeed, and from _ramollissement_ of the brain, who could admire 'Cato.'
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822
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