单词 | pulvillus |
释义 | pulvillusn.α. late Middle English pulville. β. 1700s– pulvillus. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > plug, pad, or swab pillowa1400 plumaciola1400 tentc1400 pulvillus?a1425 pledget?1540 spledget1563 penicillus1575 dossil1585 splint1607 plager1656 penicil1657 sindon1657 wick1658 pad1767 tampon1848 tangle-tent1879 Gamgee pad1885 plombe1904 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 64 It is þat þer be preperate puluillez [?c1425 Paris peces of towe; L. puluili] or rounde stupatez 3 or 4 persed in þe middez infused in þe medicyne. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 100 (MED) Þen schal alle þe inner concauite & þe wounde of þe braine panne..be filled wiþ puluilles of good carpie wette in hote wyne..But loke þat þi puluilles be not to faste þriste doune. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Pulvillus, a little Pillow, or Cushion; also a Bolster us'd by Surgeons in dressing Wounds. 1782 J. Aitken Elements Theory & Pract. Physic & Surg. II. 485 Pledget (plumaceolum, pulvillus, glomus) formed of lint, rag, or other soft matter. 2. Entomology. A pad or lobe beneath the claws of certain insects, esp. dipterans, which assists in adhering to surfaces. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > leg(s) > tarsus > pulvillus pulvillus1814 cushion1828 foot-pad1865 pad1871 1814 W. Leach Zool. Misc. 101 Tarsi five-jointed, joints entire; nails two, curved; pulvilli two. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 295 Tarsi terminated by two claws and two pulvilli. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 119 The pulvilli or foot cushions of flies. 1899 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 26 72 The bees placed in this subfamily [sc. Osminae] are readily separated or distinguished from the next two..by always having a distinct pulvillus between the claws. 1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) x. 179 The terminal piece or pulvillus is small and bears a pair of claws. 1988 Jrnl. Exper. Biol. 136 209 The pulvilli are everted by blood pressure and are withdrawn inside the tibia by contraction of the tibial muscles. Derivatives pulˈvilliform adj. Entomology resembling a pulvillus. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) A pulvilliform empodium. 1926 Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 19 455 The arolium although generally termed the pulvilliform empodium is not a true empodium as shown by Crampton (1923). 1999 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 86 381/2 Ren..described three Upper Jurassic tabanids.., which he placed in the family on the basis of pulvilliform empodia (on the feet) [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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