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EPISODE , an incident occurring in the See also:

HISTORY

history of a nation, an institution or an individual, especially with the significance of being an interruption of an ordered course of events, an irrelevance. The word is derived from a word (bretcmbos) with a technical meaning in the See also:

ancient See also:

Greek tragedy. It is defined by See also:

Aristotle (Poetics, 12) as µEpos 6Xov rpawbias TO µera b 6Xwv xopuawv µeArav, all the scenes, that is, which fall between the choric songs. eiaobos, or entrance, is generally applied to the entrance of the See also:

CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z

chorus, but the reference may be to that of the actors at the See also:

close of the choric songs. In the See also:

early Greek tragedy the parts which were spoken by the actors were considered of subsidiary importance to those sung by the chorus, and it is from this aspect that the meaning of the word, as some-thing which breaks off the course of events, is derived (see A. E. Haigh, The Tragic See also:

DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

Drama of the Greeks, 1896, at p. 353). EPISTA%IS (Gr. Eat, upon, and ar4erv, to drop), the medical See also:

TERM

term for bleeding from the See also:

NOSE (O.Eng. nosu, cf. Dutch neus, Swed. nos, snout; the Aix in Provence. Both at Aix and at Lyons he acquired great connexion with O.Eng. nasu is obscure, cf. Ger. Nase, Lat. pares, distinction by his labours during outbreaks of the plague. In nostrils,

nose, whether resulting from See also:

LOCAL

local injury or some constitutional See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition. In persistent cases of nose-bleeding, various See also:

MEASURES

measures are adopted, such as holding the arms over the See also:

head, the application of See also:

ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice, or of such astringents as See also:

ZINC

zinc or See also:

ALUM

alum, or plugging the nostrils.

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