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Generalised

adjective
1.
Not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment.  Synonym: generalized.






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"Generalised" Quotes from Famous Books



... muscle may be many times less than the normal. Of this heightened irritability of the nervous system, to which the name "spasmophilia" has been given in America and on the Continent, the most striking symptom is a liability alike to tetany or carpo-pedal spasm, to generalised convulsions, and to laryngismus stridulus. In addition, in most cases it is generally possible to demonstrate the presence of Chvostek's sign and of Trousseau's sign. Chvostek's sign consists in a visible ...
— The Nervous Child • Hector Charles Cameron

... hall alone; when she first did this Lemuel thought it delightful, but afterwards he did not like it so much; it began to annoy him that 'Manda Grier should mix herself up so much with Statira and himself. He believed that Statira would be different, would be more like other ladies (he generalised it in this way, but he meant Miss Swan and Miss Carver), if she had not 'Manda Grier there all the time to keep her back. He convinced himself that if it were not for 'Manda Grier, he should have had no trouble in telling Statira that the art-students were ...
— The Minister's Charge • William D. Howells



Words linked to "Generalised" :   biology, unspecialized, biological science, unspecialised



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