anachoresis

plural anachoreses

1. countableuncountablemedicineThe transportation of foreign bodies via blood or lymph and subsequent collection at a site of inflammation.

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

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

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

   1963, Pdm practical dental, page 24

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

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

2. countableuncountableRetreat from the world into a solitary life.

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

   2012, Roland Barthes, How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces, →ISBN

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   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.

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

   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.

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