Text: 1. Pertaining to or produced by sympathy. 2. Pertaining to the sympathetic nervous system. 3. The sympathetic nervous system. The mutual relation between parts more or less distant, whereby a change in the one has an effect upon the other. Blakiston's New Gould Medical Dictionary The Blakiston Company, 1949; 1st edition. 1. a. A real or supposed affinity between certain things, by virtue of which they are similarly or correspondingly affected by the same influence, affect or influence one another (especially in some hidden, unseen way), or attract or tend towards each other. 1. b. A relation between two bodily organs or parts (or between two persons or things) such that disorder, or any condition, of the one induces a corresponding condition in the other. 2. Agreement, accord, harmony, consonance, concord, agreement in qualities, likeness, conformity, correspondence. 3. a. Conformity of feelings, inclinations, or temperament, which makes persons agreeable to each other; community of feelings; harmony of disposition. 3. b. The quality or state of being affected by the condition of another with a feeling similar or corresponding to that of the other; the fact or capacity of entering into or sharing the feelings of another or others; fellow-feeling. Also, a feeling or frame of mind evoked by and responsive to some external influence. [source unknown]

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