Med. ? Obs. [ad. med.L. analepsia (also used unchanged), f. Gr. ἀνάληψις a taking up or back.]
1. ‘Epilepsy arising from disorder of the stomach.’ Syd. Soc. Lex., 1879.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VII. x. (1495), 229. That manere euyl that hyghte Analempsia … comyth of replycyon of the stomak and moost of indygestyon and of bolkynge.
2. ‘The support given in the treatment of a fractured limb.’ Fowler, Med. Voc., 1860.
