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What does Achillean mean?

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Adjective
  1. Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
    1. Invincible with only one small weakness (an Achilles heel), which becomes one's downfall.
    2. Guided by emotional motives, especially rage, rather than reason.
  2. Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer.
  3. Pertaining to the Achilles tendon.
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The Achillean reflex is the contraction obtained in the gastrocnemii and solei by the percussion of the tendo Achillis.
Tendon-reflexes, as a rule, remain intact, except the Achillean one, which is frequently either absent or lowered.
A photograph was produced of the earlier, more achillean Kitchener, by way of settling that point.
A copy of Blair's speech had been shown him at the station, and I was the sole witness of his achillean wrath.

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