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Nexus   /nˈɛksəs/   Listen
Nexus

noun
1.
The means of connection between things linked in series.  Synonym: link.
2.
A connected series or group.





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"Nexus" Quotes from Famous Books



... described as sexual manifestations. What I have said of sucking movements applies to this also. It is true that nail-biting and masturbation may both occur in the same child, and French writers have maintained that there is a causal nexus between the two processes. If we regard nail-biting as a "tic" occurring chiefly in neuropaths, and if we assume that the neuropathic congenital predisposition is the basis of the premature awakening of sexuality, it ...
— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll
... use of the conception of the organism as an historical being it is necessary then to understand the causal nexus between ontogeny and phylogeny. ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell


Words linked to "Nexus" :   linkage, series


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