单词 | albugo |
释义 | albugon. 1. Medicine. A whitish spot on the cornea; a corneal opacity; disease of the eye characterized by this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > albugo white haw1551 albugo1565 leucoma1706 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xvi. 361 Another eul of þe yȝen þat we clepiþ a webbe, and Constantinus clepiþ it albugo.] 1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 6 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. Albula. That whytnesse of yt Puppill, or vtter part of the eye, which Lanfranke calleth Albulam, interpretyng it Cicatricem, is called of others Albugo, and of some Panus. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 1026 The iuice pressed foorth saith Dioscorides, with honie added thereto, clenseth the vlcers of the eies,..and taketh away spots in the same, called Albugines. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 18) 1570 [Pride] is like the Albugo, or white spot in the eye, which dimmeth our understanding. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) ii. xv. 1072 What should I speak of the Albugo of the eye, a most hurtfull disease? 1704 London Gaz. No. 40009/4 Ungula's, Albugo's..and all other Distempers relating to the Eyes. 1753 W. Oldys Observ. Cure William Taylor 30 Two large Albugines, (or White Films) one on each Eye, attended with no Inflammation nor Pain, but a total Deprivation of Sight. 1760 J. Ball Mod. Pract. Physic II. 66 An Albugo, or Leucoma, is a whitish spot of the cornea, called a Pearl, or speck in the eye. 1830 W. Mackenzie Pract. Treat. Dis. Eye 383 Occasionally it happens, that after an albugo is removed by absorption, a transparent dimple is left in the cornea, which is long of filling up. 1865 Social Sci. Rev. 3 184 Under the head of Ophthalmia are included all the cases of acute, chronic, or scrofulous inflammation, or their effects, such as granular lids;..also albugoes, leucomas, warts, [etc.]. 1914 C. H. Beard Ophthalmic Semiol. & Diagnosis 74 The denser, whiter, more sharply defined spots, or albugoes, however, go deeper. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Albugo..Also the white of an Egg. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1565 |
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