单词 | algor |
释义 | algorn. Chiefly Medicine. Now rare. Cold, chilliness; spec. the feeling of being very cold which occurs as the body temperature rises in certain fevers (cf. rigor n. 1); an instance of this.In medical use, algor was often distinguished from rigor (rigor n. 1) by an absence of shivering. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] coldeOE cheldec1000 kelda1350 coldnessc1400 algor?1440 algory1623 algidity1656 frigidness1727 algidness1731 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > ague > cold stage of colda1398 rigora1400 rigour1541 chill1601 algor1716 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. l. 55 Ffor ouer cold do dowues donge at eue Aboute her roote, algour away to dryue. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Algor, great cold or chilness. 1716 E. Strother Criticon Febrium iii. 85 A Remitting Fever also begins with an Algor and Horror. 1733 D. Turner Anc. Physician's Legacy 48 I was once called in to a Person, who from reading the Doctor's Treatise, had hastily gulped down a large Spoonful of the Vitriol Elixir, and tho' sufficiently diluted, was thrown thereby into a such an Algor..as had endangered Stagnation. 1818 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 14 608 At half past 11 o'clock he again complained of algor and occasional numbness. 1848 Med. Times 15 Apr. 481/2 Blisters upon the lower extremities and upon the nape produced excellent results, even before cyanosis and algor had ceased. 1916 W. H. Deaderick & L. Thompson Endemic Dis. Southern States xiv. 265 Somnolence, with diminishing amount of urine; coma, especially of early onset; petechiæ, epistaxis or other hemorrhage and algor forebode evil. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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