KI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ki mean? 

• KI (noun)
  The noun KI has 2 senses:

1. the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health

2. goddess personifying earth; counterpart of Akkadian Aruru

  Familiarity information: KI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ch'i; chi; ki; qi

Hypernyms ("ki" is a kind of...):

energy; vim; vitality (a healthy capacity for vigorous activity)

Domain region:

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Goddess personifying earth; counterpart of Akkadian Aruru

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)

Domain region:

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)

 Context examples 

The cancer cells express a marker called CD30 or Ki-1 on the surface, and may appear in the lymph nodes, skin, bones, soft tissues, lungs, or liver.

(ALCL, NCI Dictionary)

Buzsáki’s group first looked at whether seizure- and IED-like activity that starts in the hippocampus impairs memory in a rat model of epilepsy.

(Seizures disrupt memory network, NIH)

A group led by Dr. György Buzsáki at New York University took a closer look at how temporal lobe epilepsy affects the brain’s memory network.

(Seizures disrupt memory network, NIH)