单词 | antrum |
释义 | antrumn. 1. A cave or cavern; esp. (chiefly with reference to Virgil's Aeneid) the cavern in which the Cumaean Sibyl delivered oracular pronouncements.Not fully naturalized in English. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave covec950 denOE cavec1220 rochea1300 spelunk13.. cavernc1374 cabin1377 speke1377 antruma1398 minea1398 thurse-house?c1450 crypt?a1475 vault1535 chamber1575 antre1585 underground1594 Peak1600 lustre?1615 open?1644 cunicle1657 subterranean1714 subterrane1759 loch1767 purgatory1797 vug1818 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xiv. liii. 722 A derke caue hatte antrum and haþ þat name of atro ‘blacke’. 1660 S. Patrick Mensa Mystica Introd. sig. d2 Here he speaks of an Antrum or Cave, in which the Nymphes..did reside. 1742 R. Hurd Let. 15 Apr. in Early Lett. (1995) 60 Instead of a lovely Antrum,..a thin, leafless Thorn was all the Shelter. 1830 J. P. Cobbett Jrnl. Tour in Italy 234 A dark subterraneous passage, which as some think, was the antrum, or cave, of the Cumæan Sibyl. 1994 Vergilius 40 29 An antechamber..provides access to an antrum and beyond to the adytum. 2. Anatomy. Any of various hollow cavities or structures within the body; esp. the pyloric antrum.antrum of Highmore: the maxillary sinus.mastoid antrum, maxillary antrum, pyloric antrum: see the first element. See also aditus ad antrum at aditus n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity pita1275 holec1300 cella1398 den1398 follicle?a1425 purse?a1425 pocketa1450 fossac1475 cystis1543 trench1565 conceptory1576 vesike1577 vesicle1578 vault1594 socket1601 bladderet1615 cistern1615 cavern1626 ventricle1641 bladder1661 antrum1684 conceptaculum1691 capsule1693 cellule1694 loculus1694 sinus1704 vesicula1705 vesica1706 fosse1710 pouch1712 cyst1721 air chamber1725 fossula1733 alveole1739 sac1741 sacculus1749 locule1751 compartment1772 air cell1774 fossule1803 umbilicus1811 conceptacle1819 cœlia1820 utricle1822 air sac1835 saccule1836 ampulla1845 vacuole1853 scrobicule1880 faveolus1882 1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) 14 (caption) The Pylorus with its Antrum or Hollow. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 275. ¶5 We observed a large Antrum or Cavity in the Sinciput. 1734 G. Thomson Anat. Human Bones 169 When there are three [turbinata], the middle is so placed, as to shelter the perforation of the antrum maxillæ superioris, into the nostril, and prevent the sudden rushing in of air from the nostril into the antrum. 1819 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (new ed.) at Surgery Sometimes a discharge ensues between the roots of the back-teeth, when they happen to penetrate the antrum. 1842 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 33 The..antrum of Highmore. 1918 P. G. Stiles Nutritional Physiol. (ed. 3) viii. 70 The muscular coats of the antrum are somewhat thicker than those of the fundus. 1958 J. H. Otty in C. Rob & R. Smith Operative Surg. VIII. xviii. 93 The antrum is opened by removing a chip of bone wide enough to insert a Hajek's punch forceps. 1989 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 July 237/2 Patients with dyspeptic symptoms, whose endoscopy showed..minor inflammatory features in the antrum. 2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! xvi. 190 It's the timbre, it's the resonance in throat and mouth and sinus and antrum that is the essence of your being. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1398 |
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