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vicarious

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Happening in a different part of the body instead of the usual place

adjective
/vɪˈkɛr.i.əs/

Specialized

: vicario

Her initial tortures, graphic as they are, give way to a piety saturated with equally somatic contortions, lactations, and vicarious suffering.

Examples

But even under this model, the managed care health plan risks vicarious liability.

Academic text (2000)
That means the same "metaphor" which Johannes Kepler identified under the category of "vicarious hypothesis."

Blog text (6)
The model case would be the quality of the use of "vicarious hypothesis" by Johannes Kepler, in which the name of an effect is used as a surrogate for the lack of an elusive "literal" meaning.

Blog text (6)
In Faragher, Justice David Souter wrote for the majority that "an employer is subject to vicarious liability to a victimized employee for an actionable hostile environment created by a supervisor with immediate (or successively higher) authority over the employee." Before the Court

Academic text (2000)
Some patients experience vicarious symptoms, feeling pain in areas different from where the actual injury occurs.
The doctor explained that the patient's emotional distress was vicarious, resulting from witnessing others' suffering.
In some cases, individuals may develop vicarious reactions, such as feeling a phantom itch after seeing someone else scratch.

Surface Forms

vicarious positive

Morphology

vicarious = vicar (opaque) = vicar + ious

Although morphologically 'vicar' + '-ious', the medical sense 'occurring in an abnormal site' is a specialized technical extension that learners cannot derive from the base without medical knowledge.

Etymology

Vicarious in medical use keeps the same idea from Latin vicarius 'in place of'. It describes a sign or event that happens in a different body part instead of the usual one, so the body shows the effect 'in place of' the normal site.