单词 | linea alba |
释义 | linea alban. Anatomy and Zoology. A band of white fibrous tissue that runs in the midline of the wall of the abdomen from the sternum to the pubis, into which the transverse and oblique abdominal muscles insert. Cf. white line n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > sinew, tendon, or ligament > types of sinew, tendon, or ligament > [noun] > of abdomen enervation1578 linea alba1578 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 65 After this appeareth in Abdomen, and as it were deuidyng it in the middest, a line, and round pitte, called the nauell, of the Latins Vmbelicus: and the lyne or hollow tyeng from it, for the whitenes therof, Linea Alba, the white lyne. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. viii. xii. 302 The Section must be made three fingers bredth below the Navell,..but not upon that which they call the Linea Alba [L. lineam quam vocant, Albam]. 1699 E. Tyson Orang-outang 25 It's [sc. the skin] greatest adhæsion was at the Linea alba, and in the Palms of the Hands, and the Soles of the Feet. 1840 F. Churchill Observ. Dis. Pregnancy & Childbed iii. i. 198 The linea alba may give way from over-distension, and allow a protrusion of intestine, or of the uterus. 1952 R. Macgregor Struct. Meat Animals iii. 61 In the male the penis is lightly attached to the linea alba. 2016 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 16 Aug. 32 Your abdomen has two sheets of muscles separated in the middle by a line called the linea alba. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578 |
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