单词 | eventation |
释义 | † eventationn. Obsolete. The action or process of causing (supposed) noxious vapours to escape from the blood, esp. by opening a vein; the action of opening a vein to extract a small quantity of blood. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [noun] bloodleaseeOE bloodlettingOE lettingOE minutionc1386 vein bloodc1405 bleedingc1440 blooding1525 eventation?1543 ?1543 T. Phaer tr. N. de Houssemaine Treat. Pestilence ii. iv. f. xxxvi in tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe In suche cases a lytle euentation [Fr. euentation] of the enfected bloode, maye be the sauynge of theyr lyues. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Eventation, a venting; also, the opening of a veine. 1636 E. Edwards Anal. Chyrurg. 40 Eventation, when humours boyle and bubble in the veins by evil quality, and done by little at once to vent the vapours. 1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 388 It [sc. purgation by specificks] drains the ill humours, without diminishing the Crimson Balsam and Vital Spirit, which departs and vanisheth (more or less) upon every Section of Veins and Eventation of the Bloud (as some do call it). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018). < n.?1543 |
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