单词 | autoscopy |
释义 | autoscopyn. 1. Medicine. Visual inspection or examination of one's own organs; spec. = autolaryngoscopy n. Also: direct examination (without a mirror) of the larynx. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] > by physical means > of specific parts or using specific instruments abdominoscopy1826 stethoscopy1853 haematoscopy1854 laparoscopy1855 autolaryngoscopy1860 autoscopy1861 laryngoscopy1861 pharyngoscopy1861 rhinoscopy1861 organoscopy1864 oesophagoscopy1872 otoscopy1874 endoscopy1879 tracheoscopy1880 gastroscopy1888 thoracoscopy1890 proctoscopy1896 rectoscopy1897 sigmoidoscopy1900 bronchoscopy1903 cystoscopy1908 peritoneoscopy1935 toposcopy1950 mediastinoscopy1959 sonogram1978 1861 G. D. Gibb tr. J. N. Czermak On Laryngoscope iii. 24 But the best preparation, according to my experience, is autoscopy. 1907 Lancet 25 May 1422/2 Of such methods formerly only the autoscopy of Kirstein has been at the disposal of the profession. 1917 L. F. Barker Monographic Med. II. v. 472 Direct Laryngoscopy. This may be carried out, either (1) by the autoscopy of Kirstein, or, better, (2) by the use of Hay's electrical pharyngoscope. 1977 A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan Écrits ii. 11 The prevalence that psychoanalysis has discovered among them [sc. the works of Hieronymous Bosch] of images of a primitive autoscopy of the oral and cloacal organs. 1998 Jrnl. Voice 12 2/1 Kirstein..was remarkably thoughtful and perceptive when he introduced his novel approach to the larynx as autoscopy, which diffused potential objections and academic resistance to this new technique. 2. Chiefly Psychology and Psychiatry. a. In full internal autoscopy. The visualization or enhanced awareness of one's own internal organs (typically occurring as a symptom of mental illness). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun] > state of awareness > of particular things consciencec1384 sense1555 self-perception1666 sense of direction1836 aliveness1870 self-awareness1876 autoscopy1903 1903 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 59 547 Autoscopy is an abnormal power of observing and representing the anatomical and functional state of the subject's own internal organs... If the observation is direct, it is termed internal autoscopy. 1936 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 25/3 In internal autoscopy the subject believes that he can feel and picture the inside organs of his body, or that he can trace the course of a foreign body through the alimentary canal. 1994 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 165 810/1 A spectacular but also uncommon symptom is ‘internal autoscopy’.., where subjects are able to ‘see’ inside their own bodies... This symptom has a histrionic element. b. More fully external autoscopy. A form of visual hallucination in which a person sees an image of himself outside his own body. Later also: = out-of-body experience at out-of-body adj. ΚΠ 1904 N.Y. Times 22 May iv. 8/4 Instances of this form of vision in which the seer perceives at dusk, under certain conditions, his own double are well known to the scientific investigator as well as to the romance writer. This kind of vision has been named ‘external autoscopy’. 1951 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Mar. 431/1 I have chosen the visual hallucination of the self, or autoscopy, as the theme of this lecture. 1968 Brain 91 649 When this depersonalization is associated with visual hallucination and the subject sees himself outside his body, the state of autoscopy exists. 1979 Observer Mag. 34/3 11 [patients] viewed their body and physical surroundings from a detached position of height (autoscopy). 2007 New Yorker 23 July 41/1 One seems to be no longer in one's own body but outside it and, most commonly, looking down on oneself from eight or nine feet above (neurologists refer to this as ‘autoscopy’). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1861 |
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