| 释义 |
ˈvertebre Anat. and Zool. ? Obs.
Also 7, 9 verteber.
[a. F. vertèbre: see vertebra. In sense 1 ad. L. vertebrum.]
†1. The rounded top of the thigh-bone. Obs.—1
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. I v, The endes of the bones of the thyghes, called vertebres.
2. = vertebra 1.
α1578Banister Hist. Man i. 19 b, The first Vertebre.. of the necke is more solid,..then all the bones els of the backe. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 9 That part of the neck which is next to the Atlantick Vertebre. 1692Ray Disc. 109 The Vertebres of Thornbacks and other Cartilagineous Fishes. 1738Phil. Trans. XL. 37 The upper extremity of the medulla spinalis, in the first vertebre of the neck. 1769Ibid. LX. 32 A kitten..had its head cut off betwixt the first and second vertebre of the neck. 1834H. Caunter Orient Ann. viii. 107 A morah, or footstool, formed of a vertebre of some huge creature. Ibid. 108 The attendants brought away the jaw and half a dozen of the vertebres.
β1828–32Webster, Verteber. a1843Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 292/2 The spine consists of a set of consecutive, cartilaginous, horny pieces,..called Vertebers.
†3. The spine; = vertebra 2. Obs.—0
1623Cockeram i, Verteber, the chine or backe bone.
†b. pl. = prec. Obs.—0
1696Phillips (ed. 5), Vertebers, the whole Ridge of the Back-Bone. |