单词 | phrenicula |
释义 | † phreniculan. Medicine. Obsolete. rare. B. Rush's name for: oedema of the brain, esp. as an early stage of acute hydrocephalus or an inflammatory process; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain phrenesisa1529 siriasis1601 phrenitis1621 brain fever1772 phrenicula1793 cephalitis1811 cerebritis1866 1793 B. Rush Med. Inq. & Observ. II. 215 I have taken the liberty to call it [sc. internal dropsy of the brain]Phrenicula, from it being a diminutive species or state of phrenitis. 1799 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 4) I. 282 The commencement of this disease is always truly inflammatory, being What he calls a phrenicula, or diminutive species of phrenitis. 1834 Lancet 7 June 383/2 The first morbid status he [sc. Dr. Rush] has called phrenicula. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1793 |
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