单词 | ambulation |
释义 | ambulationn.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis > spreading of ambulation?1541 ?1541 R. Copland Formularye Aydes Apostemes in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Riv To drye the rottennesse that is..blody, and vyrulent, and after nede to deffende the ambulacyon. 1565 J. Hall tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. ii. xiii. 29 But laye aboute it a defensiue of Bole Armeniake, to defende the ambulation and corrosion. 1837 J. Kitchen tr. J. Bouillaud New Res. Acute Articular Rheumatism 44 Does this character of mobility, or of ambulation of articular rheumatism,..constitute an irreconcileable contradiction with its inflammatory nature which we have recognized? 2. The action or process of walking or moving about; an instance of this. Also (in plural): wanderings, ramblings.In quot. 1554 probably: a way, a path. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] gangeOE walkinga1325 ambulation1554 footing1567 sashaying1935 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] walkinga1325 spacingc1485 ambulation1554 footing1567 hoofing1652 Shanks' (or Shanks's) mare, ponya1774 pedestrianizing1799 pedestrianism1808 ankle express1887 1554 M. Huggarde Path waye to Towre of Perfection sig. E.ii The way leding to dampnation, Is a very large ambulacion. 1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 7 Persons which feede upon grosse meates..may use vehementer exercise and stronger ambulations [L. contentiore deambulatione]. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 57v Ambulation..in man, is made by the one legge fastened one the earth, and the other taken from the same, and circumlated. 1658 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Life King Charles 62 She must progresse her Ambulations so far as Tyburn Gallows. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 388/2 Ambulation, or Walking,..is contrary to the violent and laborious act of running. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. July 441/2 The door is free, And calls him to evade their deaf'ning clang By private ambulation. 1766 Monthly Rev. 34 App. 498 Let us delight in ambulation, the contemplation of nature, and in reading. 1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 779 A style of ambulation peculiarly crustacean! 1885 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. III. xix. 320 The bishop was confined to his house..through the summer and autumn, with a certain liberty of ambulation. 1922 ‘R. West’ Judge ii. viii. 406 Their ambulations had brought them to the orchard gate again. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 4 Nov. 1131/1 In ambulation the man alternately commits his full weight to one leg, while he swings the other into position. 2011 Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun-News (Nexis) 12 Aug. Thor has clearly mastered the art of three-legged ambulation, and was getting around just fine alongside Hahn's other dog. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1541 |
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