单词 | of the first degree |
释义 | > as lemmasof the first degree 3. Medicine. In the classification of burns and certain other lesions of the skin: the grade of least severity or depth of penetration; (in later use) spec. the grade in which only the epidermis is affected. Chiefly in of the first degree. Cf. second-degree n. at second adj. and n.2 Compounds 1, third degree n. 4. ΚΠ 1642 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. ii. 4 For if the thing which burneth doth not long stick unto the body, or be but light as straw, flax, hemp, or any kind of light or dry wood, or any thing which quickly falleth off, they are but only pustels raised, and this is the first degree or particular [L. primus gradus seu species]. 1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. xv. 221 In the slightest or first Degree [L. primi gradus] of a Burn, the Intention is to disperse it by the Remedies which we advised for a Phlegmon. 1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 18 414 It is recorded that a violent head-ache in one person, and a pain in the limbs in another person, were removed by the parts affected being accidentally burnt, and that only in the first degree of burns. 1843 Lancet 29 July 628/2 Chloride of sodium, says Lisfranc, will subdue the inflammatory symptoms in burns of the first degree (that is, confined to simple rubefaction and elevation of the surface) in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours. 1890 Columbus Med. Jrnl. 8 531 In burns or scalds of the first degree causing only a superficial skin irritation or erythema, little treatment is usually required except to relieve the pain and exclude the air. 1915 Med. Rec. 25 Sept. 545/1 He found that in frostbite of the first degree in which there was not much swelling one application of the x-rays was sufficient. 1983 Clinics Dermatol. 1 9/1 The appearances to which it [sc. pemphigus foliaceus] gives rise are..often like those of a burn of the first degree. of the first degree 4. Mathematics. The degree (degree n. 13) of an equation, polynomial, etc., in which the highest power of the unknown or variable is one; the degree of a curve expressing such an equation. Only in of the first degree.A curve of the first degree is a straight line. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Transcendental curves..are such Curves, as when their Nature or Property comes to be express'd by an Equation, one of the variable or flowing Quantities there, denotes a Curve or crooked Line; and when Such Curve Line is a Geometrick one, or one of the first Degree or Kind, then the Transcendental curve is said to be of the Second Degree or Kind, &c. 1772 J. Fenn Instr. Drawing School Dublin-Soc. II. ii. 5 These Kinds of Equations are called Equations of the first Degree, such are 2x − 10 = 56.., &c. and the Problems which lead to those Equations, are called Problems of the first degree. 1841 C. Davies Elem. Analyt. Geom. (ed. 2) ix. 303 Every equation of the first degree between two variables, represents a straight line. 1894 J. Ray New Elem. Algebra (rev ed.) iv. 91 2x + b = 9, and ax + b = c, are simple equations, or equations of the first degree. 1901 J. H. Boyd College Algebra iii. iv. 330 Every inequality of the first degree in one unknown quantity x can be written in the form ax > b. 1916 Math. Gaz. 8 254 We might quite naturally say that the rate increases continuously in a curve of the first degree. 1969 Math. Mag. 42 187 Are there transformations which preserve the essential characters of the collineation..but without having the form of polynomials of the first degree? 2012 R. W. Balluffi Introd. Elasticity Theory for Crystal Defects 125 Consider the relatively simple case where the transformation strain is a polynomial of the first degree. < as lemmas |
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