OD
\ˈɒd], \ˈɒd], \ˈɒ_d]\
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[=o]d, or od, n. a peculiar force acting on the nervous system, assumed by Reichenbach to exist in light, heat, electricity, living bodies, and all material substances whatever, and to produce the phenomena of mesmerism.--adj. O'DIC.--ns. OD'-FORCE, od; O'DISM, belief in od. [Gr. hodos, a way.]
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od, n. for God--sometimes ODD.--interjs. OD'S-BODIKINS, God's body; OD'S LIFE, God's life; OD'S-PITIKINS (Shak.), a corr. of God's pity.
By Thomas Davidson
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A term, employed by Reichenbach to designate an "effective force," which, according to him, not only manifests itself in contact with man, as in the case of magnets, crystals, the hands, &c., but, also, at distances, as from the sun, moon, and stars-indeed from all matter. Such a force is termed by him odic.
By Robley Dunglison
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Abbreviation for oculus dexter, "right eye."
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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