repletion
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French repletion, from Latin replētiō, replētiōnem.
Noun
repletion (countable and uncountable, plural repletions)
- The condition of being replete; fullness.
- (medicine, archaic) Plethora of the blood.
Translations
the condition of being replete
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Anagrams
- interlope, let one rip, petroline, retpoline, terpineol
Old French
Alternative forms
- replecion
- repleciun
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin replētiō, replētiōnem.
Noun
repletion f (oblique plural repletions, nominative singular repletion, nominative plural repletions)
- repletion (fullness)
- (medicine) overabundance; excess
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 204 of this essay:
- il doit fuir grant replecion de viandes et de beuvrage
- he must avoid excess of meat and beverages
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