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单词 acral
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acraladj.

Brit. /ˈakrəl/, U.S. /ˈækrəl/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: Greek ἄκρος , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < ancient Greek ἄκρος highest, topmost (see acro- comb. form) + -al suffix1, after Hellenistic Greek ἀκράλεα extremities of the body (rare: see note), use as noun of neuter plural of an otherwise unattested adjective ἀκράλεος < ancient Greek ἄκρος + -αλεος, suffix forming adjectives (common in medical vocabulary).Hellenistic Greek ἀκράλεα is attested only once, in a work by Galen explaining the technical terms in Hippocrates, but the word is not found in Hippocrates. Hippocrates uses ancient Greek (Ionic) ἄκρεα in this sense (compare Hellenistic Greek ἀκραῖα in Galen).
Medicine.
Designating the extremities or peripheral parts of the body, esp. the hands and feet (or forefeet and hind feet), tip of the nose, and ears; of, relating to, or affecting these parts.
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1912 H. Cushing Pituitary Body & its Disorders ii. 31 Neither these measurements nor the photographs..give more than a scant indication of his extraordinary size and the disproportions of the acral parts—head, hands and feet.
1922 Lancet 16 Sept. 600/1 The principal changes of acromegaly are due to overgrowth of the acral portions of the skeleton.
1974 Helvetica Paediatrica Acta 29 59 The case differs from most of the previously reported cases by the presence of acral dysostosis.
1992 Independent 3 Mar. 17/1 Doctors..compare his disorder to ‘canine acral lick’, a compulsive disorder in which dogs obsessively lick their forepaws to the point of ulceration.
2010 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Feb. 70/1 The medication gave him a moderate case of hand-foot syndrome (also called chemotherapy-induced acral erythema), which can cause swelling, pain and peeling on the palms and soles of the feet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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