单词 | pneumatocyst |
释义 | pneumatocystn. Chiefly Zoology and Botany. Originally: the gas-filled chamber of a pneumatophore (pneumatophore n. 1). Later more widely: any air-filled sac in an organism, esp. in an animal body; (Medicine) a benign intraosseous cyst containing gas or air. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > parts of lung pneumatocyst1859 tracheobronchial1896 parabronchus1916 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Siphonophora > member of > part containing air-cavity > air-sac pneumatocyst1859 1859 T. H. Huxley Oceanic Hydrozoa 6 In the adult, this sac, which I shall term the pneumatocyst, is sometimes open at the apex (Physalia, Rhizophysa), and can communicate with the exterior by a pore which traverses the ectoderm of the pneumatophore. 1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 113 Apolemiadæ. Pneumatocyst small. Cœnosarc filiform. 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 200 The Pneumatocysts.—A bird is literally inflated with these great membranous receptacles of air. 1920 Bot. Gaz. 70 230 There was present an average of 4 per cent (by volume) of carbon monoxide in the pneumatocyst of the giant Pacific Coast kelp. 1996 Spine 21 389 Intraosseous pneumatocyst is a rare benign condition, commonly seen in iliac bone or sacrum. Derivatives pneumatocystic adj. rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Pneumatocystic, of or having the character of a pneumatocyst. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1859 |
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