| 释义 |
cauda Anat. and Zool.|ˈkɔːdə|
[L.]
A tail-like appendage, as cauda equina, the bundle of nerves at the base of the spinal cord (= mare's tail 3).
1696Phil. Trans. R. Soc. XIX. 325 Dr. Balflour found Eggs in the Cauda of it [sc. a Barnacle]. 1848Quain's Anat. (ed. 5) II. 820 The nerves of the cauda equina are vertical. 1889Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 135/1 The caudatum..in man, and some other mammals the form is such as to suggest the application of..cauda to the tapering continuation along the medicornu. 1892Osler Princ. Med. 855 Cases of injury of the cauda equina. 1962Lancet 29 Dec. 1367/1 A remarkable tribute to the relative tolerance of the cauda equina.
Hence ˈcaudad adv. [-ad], towards the tail, in the direction of the tail.
1889Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 135/2 At the meson it is seen as a raised transverse band, but laterad, on account of its deflection caudad, it is divided obliquely. 1898Proc. Zool. Soc. 973 At the level of the posterior border of the palatine instead of a little caudad of this. |