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111sympathetic uveitis — see under ophthalmia …
112sympathetic detonation — act of causing one explosive charge to detonate by detonating another charge nearby …
113sympathetic nervous system — part of the nervous system that operates automatically without conscious choice (such as nerves responsible for blood circulation, digestion, breathing, etc.) …
114sympathetic resonance — A harmonic beat that develops when the natural vibration frequency of one mechanism is in phase with a vibration of another mechanism that is somehow coupled. In helicopters, the rotor system has its own vibration resonant frequency that… …
115sympathetic magic — noun occult rituals using objects or actions to represent the event or person over which influence is sought …
116sympathetic strings — plural noun additional strings fitted to certain stringed instruments to give extra resonance …
117sympathetic strike — See strike …
118sympathetic nervous system — one of the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system, having fibres that leave the central nervous system, via a chain of ganglia close to the spinal cord, in the thoracic and lumbar regions. Its nerves are distributed to the blood vessels,… …
119sympathetic ink — /ˌsɪmpəθɛtɪk ˈɪŋk/ (say .simpuhthetik ingk) noun → invisible ink …
120sympathetic nervous system — noun Anatomy, Physiology that portion of the autonomic nervous system which is made up of a system of nerves and ganglia which arise from the thoracic and lumbar regions of the spinal cord, and which supply the walls of the vascular system and… …