单词 | exfoliative |
释义 | exfoliativeadj.n. A. adj. ‘Capable of causing, or favourable to, exfoliation’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1884). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [adjective] > of trepan: used for exfoliation exfoliative1730 the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > process of healing of an injury, etc. > [adjective] > capable of exfoliation exfoliative1875 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Exfoliative Trepan, one proper to scrape, and at the same time to pierce a bone, and so to exfoliate or raise several leaves or flakes one after another. 1747 C. Amyand in Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 196 With the exfoliative Trepan, to make a fair Opening into the medullary Cavity of the Bone. 1875 H. Walton Pract. Treat. Dis. Eye (ed. 3) 494 Occasionally an exfoliative effort is seen on the surface of the eye. B. n. Something which produces exfoliation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > drugs having specific effect > [noun] > removing surface of bone exfoliative1676 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. ii. vii. 185 Dress the Bone with the milder Exfoliatives, and keep the Ulcer open, till the burnt Bone cast off. Compounds exfoliative cytology n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > cytology > branches of plasmology1888 cytopathology1898 karyology1932 exfoliative cytology1949 1949 Ann. Internal Med. 31 661 (title) A survey of the actualities and potentialities of exfoliative cytology in cancer diagnosis. 1970 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xxviii. 9/1 While exfoliative cytology is a useful screening technique, a definitive diagnosis should be confirmed by more reliable means, such as biopsy, whenever possible. 1993 Brit. Jrnl. Surg. 80 416/1 All reports involved exfoliative cytology performed on samples collected from the duodenum. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1676 |
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