Apatanaka, Apatānaka: 6 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Apatānaka (अपतानक).—[apakramya antarāntarā tanute tan kartari ṇvul] Spasmodic contraction with occasional convulsive fits; सोऽपतानकसंज्ञो यः पातयत्यन्तरान्तरा (so'patānakasaṃjño yaḥ pātayatyantarāntarā) Suśr.

Derivable forms: apatānakaḥ (अपतानकः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apatānaka (अपतानक).—m.

(-kaḥ) Spasmodic contraction: see the last. E. apa down, tana to spread, ṇvul aff.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apatānaka (अपतानक):—[=apa-tānaka] [from apa-tantra] m. idem, [Suśruta]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apatānaka (अपतानक):—[tatpurusha compound] m.

(-kaḥ) (In Medicine.) One of the diseases of the vital air (see vātavyādhi), viz. a spasmodic contraction of the body; described thus: ‘if the vital air, much affected with phlegm, stops in the tubular vessels, it causes the patient to fall down at intervals’. E. tan, in the caus., with apa, kṛt aff. ṇvul.

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Apatanaka in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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