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Organ vs Erethism - What's the difference?

organ | erethism |

As nouns the difference between organ and erethism

is that organ is a largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions while erethism is (pathology) abnormal excitement of a bodily organ or tissue.

As a verb organ

is (obsolete|transitive) to supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.

organ

English

(wikipedia organ) (Pipe organ)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
  • (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
  • (musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ , the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
  • A species of cactus ().
  • (slang) The penis.
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * barrel organ * house organ * internal organ * mouth organ * pipe organ * sense organ * sex organ * storage organ * swell organ * vital organ

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
  • * Bishop Mannyngham
  • Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    erethism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pathology) Abnormal excitement of a bodily organ or tissue.
  • Any unusual or morbid overexcitement.
  • *1978 , Robert Hurley, trans. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Volume I , Penguin 1978, p. 32:
  • *:Since the eighteenth century, sex has not ceased to provoke a kind of generalized discursive erethism .