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mi⋅mo⋅sis

  [mi-moh-sis, mahy-]
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–noun Pathology.
mimesis (def. 4).

mi⋅me⋅sis

  [mi-mee-sis, mahy-]
–noun
1. Rhetoric. imitation or reproduction of the supposed words of another, as in order to represent his or her character.
2. Biology. imitation.
3. Zoology. mimicry.
4. Also, mimosis. Pathology.
a. the simulation, due to hysteria, of the symptoms of a disease.
b. the simulation of the symptoms of one disease by another.
Origin:
1640–50; < Gk mmēsis imitation, equiv. to mīmē- (var. s. of mīmeîsthai to copy) + -sis -sis
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mimesis mi·me·sis (mĭ-mē'sĭs, mī-)
n.

  1. The appearance of symptoms of a disease not actually present, often caused by hysteria.

  2. Symptomatic imitation of one organic disease by another.

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