单词 | lividity |
释义 | lividityn. The quality or condition of being livid; black and blue, bluish-grey, or purplish discoloration of the skin; livor. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > discoloration bloness1382 lividity?a1425 livor?a1425 blueness1440 lividness1634 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > lividness blaeness1382 bloness1382 lividity?a1425 blueness1440 lividness1634 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 38v (MED) Sief rosatum is put of Jesu in þe capitle of liuidite, i. blonez [?c1425 Paris wannesse; L. liuiditate], & sanie bihynde corneam. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) l. 1831 This wone colour, callide lyuydite, In envious men vsith moche to be. 1648 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. xviii. 88 If from cold lividity did proceed, which is a signe of mortification, especially if no heat or feeling doe remaine. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. ii. x. 196 After Digestion, I incarned with mel despumat. &c. and continued the use of the Fomentation, hoping thereby to give a breathing, and dry up the bruised Parts which made that lividity about the Ulcer. 1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vii. 93 The Signs of a Tendency to such a State, are Darkness or Lividity of the Countenance [etc.]. 1791 W. Thomson Mem. Serjeant D. Macleod 42 A blueness, or lividity in the skin, marks the place in the forehead where the wound was inflicted. 1832 Lancet 24 Mar. 886/1 In three hours extremities a little warmer; pulse a little more distinct; lividity much less. 1876 Trans. Clin. Soc. 9 189 There was no lividity of lips or cheeks. 1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird II. 58 A shade more livid than the normal lividity of the complexion. 1918 Amer. State Trials 10 201/1 That the child was strangled to death was indicated by the lividity, the blueness of the parts. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xii. 304 The visible changes are pallor or lividity of the feet. 2003 Fiddlehead Spring 11 Postmortem lividity was Karen's passion and no matter what Nick said.., nothing deterred Karen from a detailed description of core body temperatures, speed of progression, and an explanation of how rigor mortis came and went. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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