单词 | arrode |
释义 | arrodev. Now chiefly in medical contexts. transitive. To act on destructively; esp. to wear down or eat away at. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > corrode or erode forfret?c1225 fret?c1225 gnaw1530 to eat awaya1538 eat1555 arrode1575 corrode1594 out-eatc1595 eat1609 erode1612 to eat out1616 bite1623 etch1664 exede1669 cancer1824 to eat in- 1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 14v For suche [medicines] by arroding the vlcered part, do encrease muche Sanies. 1605 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Gen. Pract. Physick i. xiii. 161 The putrifaction in the mouth is, when many blisters and vlcers are ingendred, which do arrode the gums, toung, and throte painfully. 1646 A. Burgess Vindiciæ Legis xxix. 265 Marcion..whom Tertullian calls Mus ponticus, because of his arroding and gnawing the Scripture, to make it serviceable to his errours. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Arrode, to gnaw about. 1892 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 103 555 It may happen that the epiphyseal cartilages are found extensively arroded or entirely destroyed. 1920 Trans. Amer. Gynecol. Soc. 45 241 The vessels in the uterine decidua basalis arroded to furnish the blood to the lacunæ are very small. 1979 P. G. Gerlings Atlas Histopathol. Ear Tumours iii. 49 A glomus jugulare tumour had arroded a large part of the petrous bone. 1991 Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift 121 1319/2 Diagnosis was established on the basis of microscopic findings of ‘sulphur granules’ arroding the mandible. Derivatives aˈrroded adj. worn down, eaten away; cf. arrosed adj. ΚΠ 1872 N. Amer. Jrnl. Homœopathy 21 125 The hæmorrhage was caused by decubitus, produced by the pressure of the cannula, whereby the artery became arroded. 1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Dec. 99/2 The blood..is not, however, due to thrombus of a varix but to extravasation from an arroded vessel. 2012 G. L. Kaiser Symptoms & Signs Pediatric Surg. i. 19/2 The cortical part is bulging and arroded, and the whole bone is widened due to subperiosteal reossification. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1575 |
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