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61sympathetic hyperactivity — noun Hyperactivity of the sympathetic nervous system …
62sympathetic block — blocking of the sympathetic trunk by paravertebral infiltration with an anesthetic agent …
63sympathetic hyperactivity — autonomic hyperactivity expressed primarily in the sympathetic nervous system …
64sympathetic iritis — iritis occurring in sympathetic ophthalmoplegia …
65sympathetic part of autonomic division of nervous system — pars sympathica divisionis autonomici systematis nervosi; see sympathetic nervous system, under system …
66sympathetic saliva — submaxillary saliva produced in response to stimulation of its sympathetic nerve supply; more viscid and turbid than that of the unstimulated gland …
67sympathetic storm — severe sympathetic hyperactivity (see under hyperactivity), seen most often after head injury or as a reaction to certain drugs …
68sympathetic tone — continual background discharge of sympathetic nerve fibers, leading to resting contractions of cardiac and vascular smooth muscles. It normally increases and decreases in inverse proportion to parasympathetic tone …
69sympathetic ear — a self righteous person forcing his attention on those suffering a misfortune Literally, someone prepared to listen with sympathy: No tragedy is too immense and no personal anxiety too insignificant to be absorbed by Britain s vast… …
70sympathetic magic — sym′pathet′ic mag′ic n. ant magic predicated on the belief that one thing or event can affect another at a distance as a consequence of a sympathetic connection between them • Etymology: 1900–05 …