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SYNCHYSIS, in Grammar, is a confused anddisorderly placing of Words in a Sentence.

SYNCHYSIS, a Disease, is a preternaturalConfusion of the Blood, or Humors of the Eyes.Blanc hard.

SYNCOPALIS Febris, or the Swooning Fever ;is that in which the Patient often Swoons and Faintsa way. Blanchard.

SYNCOPATION, a Term in Mustek, whichis when a Note of one Part ends and breaks offupon the middle of a Note of another part.

SYNCOPE, in Mustek, is the driving a Note,when some shorter Note prefix’d at the beginningof the Measure, or Half-measure, is immediatelyfollow’d by two, three, or more Notes of a grea-ter Quantity, before you meet with another shortNote equivalent to that which began the driving,to make the Number even. As when an odd Crot-chet comes before two, three, or more Minims, or |an odd Quaver before two, three, or more Crot-chets.

SYNCOPE, in Physick, is a sudden Prostrationor Swooning, with a very weak, or no Pulse, anda Depravation of Sense and Motion.

SYNCOPE, in Grammar , is the taking away aLetter or Letters, out of the middle of a Word: AsDixti for Dixijti, Repostum for Repositum.SYNCRIT 1 CA. are relaxing Medicines.SYNDESMUS, ox Syndcjmous, the fame witha Ligament.

SYNDROME, is a Concurrence of severalSymptoms in the fame Disease.

SYNECDOCHE, a Trope in Rlsetoriels, wherethe Name of the Whole is put for a Part; or theName of the Part for the Whole : As if we shouldF.urope for England, or England for Europe.SYNECDOCHE, in Grammar, is when theAblative Case of the Part, or the Adjunct, is chan-ged into the Accusative: As in that of Virgil.

Deiophobum vidi lacerum crudeliter Ora.

And in this:

Flares inscripsi naminr. Begum. ■

. SYNECHPHONESIS, or Synthesis, is a Figure! n Grammar, whereby two Vowels are contractedlnt o one as in this Verse of Virgil.

&eu lento fuerint Alvearia vimina texta :

^hcrc the e<i in Alvearia, arc contracted into0t >e Vowel.

SYNEDRENONTA, are common Symptoms,r lc h accompany Diseases ; and yet neither stowUt the Nature of the Disease, nor are necessarysi -j. nco mitants of it; but do, notwithstanding, sig-se p Greatness, Continuance, tfle. of the Di-

SYNANCHE, is a fort of Squinancy, whichTute stopx the Breath; or a preternatural Instam-of the Muscles of the Jaws.oYNeUROSIS, is an Articulation of Bones bypgatnent; as the Extremity of the Ulna, isjoin-C ® ones °f the Carpus.

p oYNGUL.TUS, the Hiccough, is a depraved^vulfive Motion of the Stomach, by which it^vours to expel something that is hurtful, or

SYNlZESIS. See Syncchphonefis.

I NOCHA, is a continued intermitting Fever;s "sts for many Days with a great Hear, some-

times Putrefactions of the Blood: It is either Quo-tidian, Tertian, OX Quartan. Blancljrd.

SYNOCHUS, is a continued Fes er withoutany Intermission, or Abatement of the Heat, whichcontinues for many Days: This is either simple,or accompanied with Putrefaction. Blanchard.

SYNOD, A Meeting, or Assembly of Ecclesi-astical Persons concerning Religion: Of which,there are four Kinds.

i - General, where Bishops, &c. meet of all Na-tions.

a. National, where those of one Nation onlycome together.

j. A Provincial, where they of one only Pro-vince meet.

4. Diocesan, where those of but one Diocesemeet: See Convocation, which is the fame withSynod, only the one is a Greets, and the other aLatine Word. Cowc/’s Interpreter.

SYNODICAL Month, is the Space of Time,'{vi^. 29 Days, 12 Hours, 45 Minutes) contain'dbetween the Moon’s parting from the Sun at aConjunction, and returning to him again j duringwhich time, site puts on all her Phases. And herSYNODICAL Revolution, is that Motion where-by her whole System is carried along with theEarth round the Sun.

SYNONOMY, is when the fame thing is ex-prefs’d by several Words that have but one and thelame signification : As if one should fay, He wentaway, he escaped, he fled.

SYNTASIS, is a preternatural Distension ofthe Parts.

SYNTECTOE, is a kind of Looseness that pro-ceeds from the melting away of the Substance ofthe Body, by a violent hot Distemper of the solidParts; such as sometimes happen in the Inflamma-tion of the Bowels, and in a vehement burning Fe-ver, Hectick, or Pestilential; in which a fat Mat-ter, as it were mixt with Oil, or Grease, is voidedby Stool.

SYNTENOSTS, is reckoned by some, to be theUnition of one Bone to another, by a Tendon ; asthe Knee-pan to the Thigh-bone and Tibia.

SYNTERETICK Medicines, are that part ofPhysick, which give Rules for the Preservation ofHealth.

SYNTHXIS, is a Consumption and Colliga-tion os the Body, in which first the Flesh is wasted,and afterwards the Substance of the more solidParts. Blanchard.

SYNTHESIS, is either the Frame and Stru-cture of the whole Body ; or more strictly, theComposure of the Bones. ’Tis also used in Ma-thematics, in opposition to the Word Analysts ; inwhich sense it signifies Composition, or the

SYNTHETICAL Method of Enquiry, or De-monstration in Mathematics, is when we pursuethe Truth chiefly by Reasons drawn from Princi-ples before established, and Propositions formerlyproved, and proceed by a long regular Chain, tillwe come to the Conclusion : As is done in the Ele-ments of Euclid, and in almost all the Demonstrati-ons of the Ancients. This is called Composition,and is opposed to the Analytical Method, which iscalled Resolution ; which fee.

SYNTHESIS is also used by the Grammarians,to signifie an Agreement of the Parts of a Sentenceas to Sense, but not as to the Words.

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