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* avacTTTav, diaajrav, * TrepKnr^v — EiaaTpicpeiv, * liriaTpocpr},
* avarpl^ziv, * avaTpocpi], vTro(jTpl(peiv— * oxXtIv, * evo)(AHv,
* irapivo^Xeiv, * u)(\ov Troiiiv— &C., &C.
(c). There are certain classes of words employed by
St. Luke which were used in medical language in some
special relation. Thus he alone uses the special medical
terms for the distribution of nourishment, blood, nerves,
&c., through the body, viz., * Siavifxeiv, * diaairdpeiv, * ava-
^idovai; also the medical terms for "to stimulate," viz.,
* tTTsyeipHv, * TrpoTpiirHv, * irapoTpvviiv ; and the terms to
denote an intermittent or a failing pulse, viz., * EiaXdrrHv
and * iKXdireiv ;
&c.
{d).
We meet with the same combinations of words as in
the medical writers.
In addition, for example, to stich technical
phrases as rpijjua (5e\6vr]g — daKTvXi^ Trpoa^pavHv —
dp6p(5oL
dlfiaTog— apxaX 6d6vr]g, we find such expressions as
acriTog ^lareXdv— dg /laviav irspiTpiTraiv—a/cptjSwc diayivuxj-
Keiv — avu)Tepov Trpoaava^Baiveiv — tirixiiptiv avaXdv, &C.,
which are met with also in medical language.
(e).
There are some words which are confined to St. Luke
and the medical writers in the sense which they bear in his
writings, e.g. * iviaxvi^iv, "to impart physical strength"
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