DIARESIS, in Surgery, an operation serving to divide and separate the part when the continuity is a hinderance of the cure.

DIARESIS, in Medicine, is the consuming of the vessels of an animal body, when, from some corroding cause, certain passages are made which naturally ought not DIARESIS, in Grammar, the division of one syllable into two, which is usually noted by two points over a letter, as *aulai*, instead of *aula*, *diffolienda* for *diffolwenda*.

DIETETAE, in Grecian antiquity, a kind of judges, of which there were two sorts, the cleroti and diallafterii. The former were public arbitrators, chosen by lot to determine all causes exceeding ten drachms, within their own tribe, and from their sentence an appeal lay to the superior courts.

The diallafterii, on the contrary, were private arbitrators, from whose sentence there lay no appeal, and accordingly they always took an oath to administer justice without partiality.