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from The Century Dictionary.
- Used only in the following phrase.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol. Chem.) Designating an acid called
paralactic acid . See Lactic acid, underlactic .
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_Micrococcus acidi-paralactici_, on the other hand, ferments such solutions to optically active paralactic acid.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Thus if the irritative ideas of sight are disturbed, the paralactic motions of objects, which in general are unperceived, become sensible to us; and the locomotive muscles associated with them, which ought to preserve the body erect, stagger from this decrease or interruption of the sensorial power of association; and vertigo is produced.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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