ANAS campestris, in ornithology. See TETRAO.
ANASCAPTA, among physicians. See ANA.
ANASARCA, in medicine, a species of dropsy, in which the skin is puffed up and swelled, and the impression of the fingers remain, for some time, in the part to which they are applied, but principally in the legs. See MEDICINE, title, Dropsy.
ANASSA, or ANASSIS, in botany, a synonyme of a species of bromelia. See BROMELIA.
ANASTALTICS, in pharmacy. See STYPTICS.
ANASTASIS, a term among ancient physicians, for a rising up to go to stool. It also signifies the passage of any humour, when expelled from one part, and obliged to remove to another.
ANASTATICA, or rose of Jericho, in botany, a genus of the tetradynamia filiculosa class. The flower consists of four roundish petals, disposed in the form of a cross; the seed is a short bilocular pod, containing in each cell a single roundish seed. There are two species of the anastatica, viz. the hierochuntica, a native of the sandy parts of Palestine, and the shores of the Red-sea; and the syriaca, a native of Syria.
ANASTOCCHICOSIS, signifies a resolution of the solids and fluids.
ANASTOMASIS, or ANASTOMOSIS, in anatomy, the opening of the mouths of vessels, in order to discharge their contained fluids. It is likewise used for the communication of two vessels at their extremities; as the imbrication of a vein with a vein, of an artery with an artery, or of an artery with a vein.
ANASTOMATICS, medicines supposed to have the power of opening the mouths of the vessels, and promoting the circulation; such as deobstruent, cathartic, and sudorific medicines.
ANASTROPHE, in rhetoric, denotes the inversion of the natural order of words.
ANATHEMA, among ecclesiastical writers, imports whatever is set apart, separated, or divided; but is most usually meant to express the cutting off a person from the privileges of society, and communion with the faithful.
The anathema differs from excommunication in the circumstances of being attended with curses and exactions. It was practised in the primitive church against notorious offenders; and the form of that pronounced by Synecius against one Andronicus, is as follows: "Let no church of God be open to Andronicus, but let every sanctuary be shut against him. I admonish both private men and magistrates, neither to receive him under their roof, nor to their table; and priests more especially, that they neither converse with him living, nor attend his funeral when dead."
Several councils also have pronounced anathemas against such as they thought corrupted the purity of the
the faith, and their decisions have been conceived in the following form: Si quis dixerit, &c. anathema sit.
There are two kinds of anathemas, the one judiciary, and the other abjuratory. The former can only be denounced by a council, a pope, or a bishop; the latter makes a part of the ceremony of abjuration, the convert being obliged to anathematize the heresy he abjures.