请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 pneumic
释义

pneumicadj.

Brit. /ˈnjuːmɪk/, U.S. /ˈn(j)umɪk/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pneumique.
Etymology: < French pneumique (in acide pneumique : C. Robin and F. Verdeil Traité de chimie anatomique et physiologique (1853) 460) < ancient Greek πνευμον- , πνεύμων lung (see pneumono- comb. form) + French -ique -ic suffix. Compare earlier pneumonic adj.
I. Compounds.
1. pneumic acid n. Biochemistry (now rare or disused) an acid supposed to be present in the lung and to be involved in the conversion of sodium bicarbonate to carbon dioxide.
ΚΠ
1861 J. C. Dalton Treat. Human Physiol. 40 There are also certain substances which make their appearance in the living body, both of animals and vegetables, and which cannot be formed elsewhere; such as fibrin, albumen, casein, pneumic acid, the biliary salts, morphine, &c.
1866 H. Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 685 Pneumic acid, an acid existing, according to Verdeil,..in the parenchyma of the lungs of most animals. It is very soluble in water.
1899 A. H. Smith in Twentieth Cent. Pract. XVI. 44 But when the functional circulation ceases, the sodium bicarbonate is no longer at hand to neutralize the pneumic acid.
1905 Lancet 28 Jan. 254/1 Some have supposed that this acid in the pneumonic lung is secreted by the pulmonary tissues and have termed it pneumic acid.
II. General uses.
2. Of or relating to the lungs; pulmonary. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > [adjective] > lungs
spirital1568
pulmonic1661
pneumonic1668
pulmonary1668
pulmonical1670
pulmonal1748
pleuropulmonary1829
pneumogastric1838
cardiopulmonary1879
broncho-cavernous1890
pneumic1895
intrapulmonary1898
heart-lung1908
intrapulmonic1923
ventilatory1946
pulmonar1977
1895 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Pneumic, belonging to the lung.
2001 European Jrnl. Radiol. 37 197/2 In other cases it could be as fever, empiema [sic], pericardial effusion, pneumic hypertrophic osteoarthropathy and amyloidosis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adj.1861
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/30 13:30:57