peripheric

[ per-uh-fer-ik ]

adjective

1. peripheral ( defs 1, 2, 3 ).

Other Words From

• peri·pheri·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of peripheric¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

Thus, Buhl, Charcot, Vulpian, and Dejerine are unanimous about an affection of the peripheric nerves and muscles.

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Only, it is a doctrine to whose core mere peripheric groping will never negotiate the approach.

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Peripheric, around the outside, or periphery, of any organ.

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We may therefore reject as inexact the pretended law of eccentricity of the physiologists, who suppose that sensation is first perceived as it were centrally, and then, by an added act, is localised at the peripheric extremity of the nerve.

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The danger of alcohol in cases of peripheric neuritis, epilepsy and mental diseases, is obvious.

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