anachoresis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀναχώρησις (anakhṓrēsis).

Noun

anachoresis (plural anachoreses)

1. (medicine) The transportation of foreign bodies via blood or lymph and subsequent collection at a site of inflammation.
   • 1963, Pdm practical dental, page 24:

     Anachoresis, or anachoretic pulpitis, is, therefore, a pulpitis of systemic origin.

   • 2002, John Ide Ingle, Leif K. Bakland, Endodontics, →ISBN, page 67:

     The phenomenon of anachoresis has been demonstrated in animal models both to non-dental inflamed tissues and inflamed dental pulps.

   • 2010, Louis H. Berman, Kenneth M. Hargreaves, Steven R. Cohen, Cohen's Pathways of the Pulp Expert Consult, →ISBN, page 562:

     It has been claimed that microorganisms can reach the pulp by anachoresis.

2. Retreat from the world into a solitary life.
   • 2012, Roland Barthes, How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces, →ISBN:

     It's possible to have a contemporary version of (secular) anachoresis.

   • 2012, A. Green, V. Viaene, Religious Internationals in the Modern World, →ISBN:

     In this case though, anachoresis, departure from the world into the desert originally in Egypt and Palestine and later throughout Christendom, was a form of protest against the world, an expression of a radical craving of living in a more existentially authentic way the Christian spiritual values.

   • 2013, Steven D. Driver, John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture, →ISBN, page 91:

     In the voice of Antony, for example, Cassian describes anachoresis as leading to a more sublime perfection than is available to those living within a community.