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单词 autoscopic
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autoscopicadj.

Brit. /ˌɔːtə(ʊ)ˈskɒpɪk/, U.S. /ˌɔdoʊˈskɑpɪk/, /ˌɔdəˈskɑpɪk/, /ˌɑdoʊˈskɑpɪk/, /ˌɑdəˈskɑpɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: auto- comb. form1, -scopic comb. form.
Etymology: < auto- comb. form1 + -scopic comb. form. In sense 1 arising from a mishearing of German orthoskopisch orthoscopic adj. (quot. 1856 is from an account of a tour of some German observatories, where an English-speaker heard the German word). In sense 2 after autoscopy n. 1. In sense 3 after French autoscopique (C. Féré 1891, in Comptes rendus hebd. séances & mémoires Soc. de Biol. 43 451).Compare also French autoscopique (1823 in an isolated attestation translating English esoscopic in J. Bentham Chrestomathia (1817) ii. 216, the passage cited in quot. 1817 for esoscopic adj. at eso- prefix ).
1. Designating an early model of achromatic eyepiece for a telescope. Obsolete. rare.
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1856 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 44 He possesses a very fine comet-seeker of five French inches aperture, provided with the so-called autoscopic eye-pieces, constructed by Kellner of Wetzlar.
2. Medicine. Of or relating to visual examination of one's own organs or to direct examination of the larynx (cf. autoscopy n. 1). Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [adjective] > other types of examination
autoscopic1862
short-arm1906
1862 Lancet 31 May 580/2 The..autoscopic demonstrations of Dr. Czermak.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Nov. 1224 With children who will not allow themselves to be operated on by the ordinary endolaryngeal methods, the autoscopic methods under anaesthesia come under consideration.
1960 L. Clendening Source-bk. Med. Hist. xli. 663 M. Garcia's laryngoscopic investigations were all made on himself; indeed, he was the first person who conceived the idea of an autoscopic examination.
3. Chiefly Psychology and Psychiatry. Of or relating to autoscopy (autoscopy n. 2).
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1892 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 48 259 Autoscopic and altruistic hallucinations..are the designations given by Féré for two forms of hallucinations... The first of these two consist of the cases in which the patient sees the image of himself.
1925 A. Huxley Let. 25 Jan. (1969) 242 The people who have an ‘autoscopic’ faculty..can plainly see all the details of their own internal anatomy.
1979 1979 Observer Mag. 8 Apr. 37/1 The experiences fall into two main groups: autoscopic..and transcendent.
2009 Psychopharmacol. 206 515 It may be that the delusions engendered by LSD arise from the autoscopic, out of body, experiences that are commonly induced.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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