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Source Word

paradox

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈpæɹ.əˌdɒks/

Noun

obsolete uncountable

(pathology) is described as a free-floating mass, located inside blood vessels that can travel from one site in the blood stream to another. An embolus can be made up of solid (like a blood clot), liquid (like amniotic fluid), or gas (like air).

Japanese Meaning

血管内において自由に浮遊し、ある部位から別の部位へ移動することができる塊。固体（血栓など）、液体（羊水など）、または気体（空気など）のいずれかの状態で存在する場合がある。

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The radiologist identified a paradox in the main pulmonary artery that had traveled from the deep veins.

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放射線科医は、深部静脈から移動して肺動脈主幹に存在する塞栓を確認した。

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(medicine) is an effect of a chemical substance such as a medical drug, that is opposite to what would usually be expected. An example of a paradoxical reaction is pain caused by a pain relief medication.

Sense（3）

An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.

"This sentence is false" is a paradox.

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Sense（4）

A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.

It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.

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Sense（5）

A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.

Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox.

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A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.

Sense（7）

A person or thing having contradictory properties.

He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party.

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Sense（8）

An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.

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(obsolete) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.

Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner / transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the / force of honesty can translate beauty into his / likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the / time gives it proof.

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Sense（10）

(uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.

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(uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.

Thus, like modern disputants, they aimed either to confute the respondent or to land him in paradox.

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(uncountable, psychotherapy) The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey.