What does the word sympathetic mean?
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1. Relating to or exhibiting sympathy. 2. Noting the nerves of organic life.
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Of or pertaining to sympathy; produced by sympathy. S. ophthalmia, inflammation of one eye produced as a result of inflammation of the other; usually appearing under the guise of a destructive, recurrent, plastic, irido-cyclitis( S. iritis), sometimes under the form of a serous iritis, a chorio-retinitis, or an optic neuritis( S. neuritis, S. retinitis). S. irritation, irritation, e. g., of one eye, produced by irritation or inflammation of a related part, as the other eye.
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