单词 | arteriosclerosis |
释义 | arteriosclerosisn. Medicine. 1. Abnormal hardening or thickening of the walls of arteries; (frequently with distinguishing word) any of several forms of this, esp. atherosclerosis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > vascular disorders > [noun] > arteriosclerosis hardening1831 arteriosclerosis1860 atheroma1875 atherosclerosis1904 1860 F. Chance tr. R. Virchow Cellular Pathol. xvi. 342 (heading) Arterio-sclerosis. 1886 Lancet 24 July 180/2 One was associated with carcinoma of the pylorus..and the third with arterio-sclerosis and senile atrophy. 1895 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 2 July 2/2 The deceased was a native of Fitchburg, 77 years old, and died of arteriosclerosis and heart disease. 1944 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 28 748 Sections taken through the aneurysm revealed marked irregular intimal thickening due to hyperplastic arteriosclerosis. 1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) xxxiii. 398 Most cases of gangrene are due to arteriosclerosis (senile gangrene) or diabetes. 1962 Amer. Jrnl. Cardiol. 9 743/1 There have been long-standing tendencies to confuse atherosclerosis and the other arterioscleroses. 1990 J. Updike in W. Abrahams Prize Stories 1991, O. Henry Awards (1991) 11 The house was clogging up, Joey felt, much as her heart—coronary angiography had revealed—was plugging with arteriosclerosis. 2003 Kindred Spirit Winter 31/2 Wines containing trioxistilben..slow down cellular ageing while helping to prevent cancer and reduce arteriosclerosis. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1970 Times 2 Oct. 4/7 A government not merely middle-aged without ever having been young, but suffering from arteriosclerosis in its first four months of life. 1972 L. Ginsberg Let. 17 Feb. in A. Ginsberg & L. Ginsberg Family Business (2001) 330 Yes, I shall scrutinize the ‘hardening of my latitudes and the constriction of my platitudes and the arteriosclerosis of my views’. 2001 National Geographic Dec. 61/2 He was talking about cultural arteriosclerosis, an Old World hierarchy that stifles the freewheeling entrepreneurial spirit that fuel Silicon Valley. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1860 |
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