"syntopicon" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1966, Joseph Samuel Bois, The art of awareness: a textbook on general semantics:",
          "text": "Obviously, this makes for a syntopicon that is extremely personal, that defies all the rules of classification by verbal labels...",
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          "ref": "1971, American Medical Association, Archives of general psychiatry:",
          "text": "...the production of a syntopicon of Freud's concepts...",
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          "ref": "1989, John Stewart, Avoiding common pilot errors: an air traffic controller's view:",
          "text": "Like most of you though, I would like to see an expanded index or perhaps a \"syntopicon\" added to all of these documents.",
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