Organ vs Erethism - What's the difference?
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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.
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, title= An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
A species of cactus ().
(slang) The penis.
(obsolete) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
* Bishop Mannyngham
(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 .
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)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.}}
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* barrel organ * house organ * internal organ * mouth organ * pipe organ * sense organ * sex organ * storage organ * swell organ * vital organExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)- Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.