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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread diaetetic #107137 07/07/2003 6:19 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Is this a misprint or old form of dietetic? From Flatland again: The art of healing also has achieved some of its most glorious triumphs in the compressions, extensions, trepannings, colligations, and other surgical or diaetetic operations by which Irregularity has been partly or wholly cured. http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/flatland/7.html Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: diaetetic #107138 07/07/2003 9:25 AM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 maahey addict maahey addict Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 I don't know of such a spelling or of the term even, Bingley. I skimmed through the link and 'dietetic' seems to fit into that sentence. If it is a spelling variant, like aetiology, aether and the like, the answer must be in the root. What is the root for diet/ dietetics? Or, could the word be, dieretic? That also might(?) fit into the context. Am curious to hear more. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: diaetetic #107139 07/07/2003 11:00 AM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Just what is meant by Irregularity? ? if its a condition (real or imagined) of the bowels, then i suppose diaetetic could mean diatetic. but I have never heard of trepanning used for this. (and goodness knows, americans seem to have a fascination with clean, regular bowels, that has gone excess many times in our history, witness, Dr Kellogg's Spa, and the still current "high colonics" fad.) my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: diaetetic #107140 07/07/2003 1:09 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta The AHD has this for the etymology of diet (http://www.bartleby.com/61/36/D0213600.html): Middle English diete, from Old French, from Latin diaeta, way of living, diet, from Greek diaita, back-formation from diaitsthai, to live one's life, middle voice of diaitn, to treat. So it looks like maahey is right. The Irregularity in question is having sides of different lengths. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: diaetetic #107141 07/07/2003 1:46 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Bingley: I found it in a huge medical dictionary: diaeretic <medicine> Caustic. Origin: Gr. Dividing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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