| 单词 | melon-seed body |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmelon-seed body melon-seed body n. Medicine a small, fibrinous, loose body resembling a melon seed, found in considerable numbers in inflamed joints, tendon sheaths, bursae, etc. ΚΠ 1818 B. C. Brodie Pathol. & Surg. Observ. Dis. Joints vii. 308 When the inflammation is of long standing, it is not unusual to find floating in the fluid of the bursa a number of loose bodies,..resembling small melon seeds in appearance.] 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 261 An incision was made into the..tumour,..and a quantity of clear fluid containing numbers of ‘melon-seed’ bodies pressed out. 1968 S. Taylor & L. Cotton Short Textbk. Surg. (ed. 2) xii. 143 The synovial sheaths are thickened by granulation tissue and fibrinous deposit and often contain numerous ‘melon-seed bodies’ composed of fibrin. 1973 Austral. Vet. Jrnl. 49 50/1 The melon-seed bodies were composed of a pale eosinophilic hyaline centre, surrounded by a less dense fibrinous zone. < as lemmas |
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