Glossary of Medical Terms

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ANNIVERSARY

Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day . See Anniversary. Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and new York. Origin: L. Anniversarius; annus year + vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. Anniversaire. Origin: Cf. F. Anniversaire. 1. The annual return of the day on which any notable event took seat, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 2. The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased face; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope. 3. The celebration which takes seat on an anniversary day. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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