ANACOLU´THON, a want of grammatical and logical sequence in the structure of a sentence.
[Illustration: Anaconda (_Python tigris_)]
ANACON´DA, the popular name of two of the largest species of the serpent tribe, viz. a Ceylonese species of the genus Python (_P. tigris_), said to have been met with 33 feet long; and _Eunectes mur[=i]nus_, a native of tropical America, allied to the boa-constrictor, and the largest of the serpent tribe, attaining the length of 40 feet. They frequent swamps and rivers, are without poison fangs, and kill their victims by constriction.
ANACONDA, a town of the United States, Montana, with the largest copper-smelting works in the world. Pop. (1920), 11,668.
ANAC´REON, an amatory lyric Greek poet of the sixth century B.C., native of Teos, in Ionia. Only a few fragments of his works have come down to us; the collection of odes that usually passes under the name of Anacreon is mostly the production of a later time, the poetry of the real Anacreon being much less frivolous.
ANADYOM´[)E]N[=E] (Gr., 'she who comes forth'), a name given to Aphrodit[=e] (Venus) when she was represented as rising from the sea, as in the celebrated painting by Apelles, painted for the temple of Æsculapius at Cos, and afterwards in the temple of Julius Caesar at Rome.
ANADYR ([.a]-nä´d[=e]r), the most easterly of the larger rivers of Siberia and of all Asia; rises in the Stanovoi Mountains, and falls into the Gulf of Anadyr; length, 600 miles.
ANÆ´MIA (Gr., 'want of blood'), a medical term applied to an unhealthy condition of the body, in which there is a diminution of the red corpuscles which the blood should contain. The principal symptoms are paleness and general want of colour in the skin, languor, emaciation, want of appetite, fainting, palpitation, &c.
ANÆSTHE´SIA, or ANÆSTHE´SIS, a state of insensibility to pain, produced by inhaling chloroform, or by the application of other anæsthetic agents.
ANÆSTHET´ICS are medical agents chiefly used in surgical operations for the abolition of pain. They are divided into (1) _general anæsthetics_, those in which complete unconsciousness is produced; (2) _local anæsthetics_, those which act upon the nerves of a limited area alone.