different between schesis vs schisis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (skhésis, “state, condition, attitude”). See scheme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ski?s?s/

Noun

schesis (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.
   • 1687, John Norris, Miscellanies

     For if that Mind which has Existing in it self from all Eternity, all the Simple Essences of Things , and con?equently , all their po??ible Sche?es or Habitudes, should ever change, there would arise a new Schesis in this Mind that was not before

2. (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him; mocking by imitating another's speech.

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Related terms

• schesis onomaton

Anagrams

• Scheiss, schises

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (skhísis). A modern coinage used in medicine.

Noun

schisis (plural schises)

1. (medicine) separation, cleft
   • 2011, Elias I. Traboulsi (ed.), Genetic Diseases of the Eye, 2nd edition, page 137

     In patients with associated maculopathy, OCT demonstrates a retinal detachment with a typical convex schisis of the outer retinal layer in most patients.

Usage notes

• The word schisis may also combine with an anatomical prefix to denote a particular sort of clefting.

  palatoschisis (“cleft of the palate”)

  gastroschisis