单词 | leucophlegmacy |
释义 | † leucophlegmacyn. Pathology. Obsolete. ‘A dropsical tendency, denoted by a pale, tumid and flabby condition of body’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > excess fluid in tissue > dropsy water sicknessOE dropsyc1290 hydropsyc1380 hyposarca1398 hydropsc1480 water spring1525 leucophlegmacy1657 litherness1727 hydrothorax1793 hydrometra1811 humectation1886 1657 Physical Dict. Leucophlegmatia, a kind of dropsie. 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Leucophlegmacy, the kind of dropsy that riseth of white phlegm throughout all the body, and makes the flesh spongy. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 381 It [Cachexy] sometimes disposeth to Consumptions, sometimes to Leucophlegmacy. 1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 139 The urine thus retained in the blood, soon joins with the other humours of the body; whence the lymphatic ducts are over-loaded, and a leucophlegmatia induced. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1657 |
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