Definitions of the Month (April 2011)
April 2011 Saw the Reading of Jacques Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Chiasma: From anatomy, the intercrossing or decussation of the fibers of the optic nerves at the base of the brain; commonly as any crossing of tensile members
Anamorphosis: A distorted projection or drawing of anything, so made that when viewed from a particular point, or by reflection from a suitable mirror, it appears regular and properly proportioned; a deformation.
Punctiform: From botany or medicine, having the form of or resembling a point, puncture, or dot; minute and circular
Elision: The action of dropping out or suppressing either a letter or syllable in pronunciation or a passage in a book or connecting links in discourse
Tegument: Something that serves to cover; a covering, coating, envelope, investment, integument
Adumbration: Shading in painting; or representation in outline, sketching; and concretely an outline, a sketch; a shadowy figure; a faint or slight sketch or description
Rhodopsin: A purplish-red pigment found in the rod cells of the retina in humans and most other vertebrates, consisting of a protein (opsin) combined with retinal
Oblavity: The action of offering or presenting a gift, especially as a token of respect or honor; often with a religious connotation, the presentation of money, goods, property, etc., to the Church for use in religious service
Nuomenon: A posited object or event that is known (if at all) without the use of the senses. The term is generally used in contrast with, or in relation to "phenomenon", which refers to anything that appears to, or is an object of, the senses
Locus: Generally, the place in which something is situated, a locality; from mathematics, the curve or other figure constituted by all the points which satisfy a particular equation of relation between coordinates, or generated by a point, line, or surface moving in accordance with any mathematically defined conditions
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