单词 | albugineous |
释义 | albugineousadj. 1. Chiefly Medicine. Resembling the white of an egg; albuminous. See also albugineous humour n. at Compounds. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > ovum > white or albumen albuginous1577 whited1599 albugineous1615 albuminous1634 albuminose1821 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια i. xx. 34 Such [parts] are in the eye, the opticke nerue, the glassie humour, and the albuginious, which is like the white of an egge. 1616 G. Goodman Fall of Man (new ed.) 192 The Æthiopians or Moores doe not esteeme him beautifull, that hath not a blacke and sooty skinne,..great lips, and albugineous eye. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. x. xxxix. 403 Now divers excrements are cast forth of wounds of the joynts, but chiefely albugineous, that is, resembling the white of an egge. 1696 J. Pechey Gen. Treat. Dis. Maids xviii. 81 Till now the Infant is increased and nourished wholly by the apposition of the Cristalline or albugineous liquor. 1712 J. White De Recta Sanguinis Missione 102 A considerable pressure of the Albugineous substance must necessarily follow, which will as necessarily produce the Symptom of Stupor, Phrenitis or Delirium. 1764 Med. Museum III. 269 He..considers the albugineous or horny film or phlegm called inflammatory, which appears upon the surface of pleuritic blood. 1835 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. I. 574/2 It has been already observed, that the internal substance of some seeds are either farinaceous or albugineous. 1923 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 32 190 One must assume that the albugineous substances of the hot serum acquire defensive functions in regard to the complement. 2. Anatomy. Designating a layer of dense white connective tissue, spec. the tunica albuginea of the testis, ovary, etc.; (also) of or relating to such a layer. Cf. albuginean adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > connective tissue > [adjective] > type of albugineous1678 albuginous1689 stromal1846 stromatous1883 glial1888 stromatic1891 stromatiform1891 1678 J. Browne Compl. Disc. Wounds lxx. 322 The sanguiferous Vessels do enter the substance of the Testicles, and whether they do end in the albugineous coat, is a doubt not yet resolved. 1745 R. Mead Mech. Acct. Poisons (ed. 3) 74 The same albugineous coat continued forms a large duct..by which the poisonous fluid is conveyed. 1787 T. Topham New Compend. Syst. Dis. Cattle xxv. 208 The yellowness on the surface of the body, is most conspicuous in the albugineous coat, or white of the eyes. 1811 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Aug. 319 Contractibility..is inherent to the muscular fibre, and peculiar to it; as..is..renitence and elasticity to the albugineous fibre. 1856 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 6) I. p. xciii Examples of these [sc. fibrous membranes] are seen in..the albugineous coat of the testicle and ovary. 1916 J. Cowan Sci. New Life 79 First we have the tissue of the ovary, with its covering of peritoneum; next its albugineous tunic. 2011 Res. Vet. Sci. 91 182/2 The testis was enclosed in a thick albugineous coat of connective tissue. Compounds albugineous humour n. Anatomy (now historical) = aqueous humour at aqueous adj. 1b. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. v. 179 For þe humour albugineus in þe eiȝen is more moist. 1525 Anothomia in tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Handy Warke Surg. iii. sig. B.iv/2 After yt from befor is the humour albugyneus & yt is whytysshe.] 1615Albuginious humour [see sense 1]. 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation i. 207/1 In the Eye there are three sorts of Humors..; the third, is that which is called the Aqueous, or Albugineous Humor, from the likeness of Water, or the White of an Egg. 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 179/2 Aqueous humour, in anatomy, called also the albugineous humour, is the utmost of the three humours of the eye. 1847 J. J. G. Wilkinson tr. E. Swedenborg Outl. Philos. Argument Infinite 35 Thus we have the aqueous or albugineous humour, in which the uvea floats freely. 2004 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 148 184 Ahead of it [sc. the vitreous humor] lies the glacial humor, and ahead of this lies the albugineous humor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1615 |
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