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Magdeburg hemisphere (iou) and poriomania (medicine)


Magdeburg hemisphere (iou)



Magdeburg hemisphere noun phr. E19.
[from Magdeburg, a city in Germany, Home of the inventor, Otto von Guericke (1602-86).]
Either of a pair of brass hemispheres exhausted of air to show atmospheric pressure by their cohesion.

poriomania (medicine)


poriomania
<psychiatry> A morbid impulse to wander or journey away from Home.

Origin: G. Poreia, a journey, + mania, frenzy