单词 | puncturation |
释义 | puncturationn. 1. The action or an act of puncturing or pricking something. Formerly also: †a puncture, a prick (obsolete).In quot. 1733 with reference to a pricking sensation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > pricking or tingling prickinga1398 tinglinga1450 punction1596 dindling1597 compunction1604 punto1617 prickling1656 sharpness1694 puncture1709 puncturation1733 pins and needles1813 tingle1832 pringling1890 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > puncture > [noun] puncturation1876 puncture1895 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. viii. 197 Head-aches either behind or over the Eyes, like a Puncturation. 1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. 440 Polypuses..which are recent will sometimes shrink and disappear by repeated Puncturation or Scarification with a Scalpel or Lancet. 1835 J. H. Cooke Narr. Events South of France vi. 136 I..made three puncturations on either side of the rend, and with a piece of cord..tied the divided jacket together. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxi Tom had meant to spare him one little puncturation with a lancet, which he had it in his power to administer. 1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. 9 167 Mr. Squire, in place of the puncturation of Volckmann..prefers to scarify the skin with regular linear parallel incisions. 1907 Folk-lore 18 455 Though there are cases found of skin puncturation, what some observers have been accustomed to call ‘tattooing’ is only scarification, or even perhaps nothing more than skin-paint. 1967 B. S. Negi Man, Culture & Society x. 218 The Oraon boys are marked, when children, on the arms by rather a severe process of puncturation. 2002 Indian Vet. Jrnl. 79 327 Forty oocytes were collected from the follicles using dissection or traditional puncturation techniques. 2. Chiefly Entomology. The condition of being marked with dots, pits, or punctures; = punctation n. 2. Also: such a marking. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > spotted marking puncturation1834 punctation1848 punctuation1848 ticking1885 1834 T. Say in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 441 Elytra with three series of impressed punctures; the exterior series less distinct; general puncturation near the tip much larger and more obvious. 1834 T. Say in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 449 The lateral puncturations are much more numerous. 1919 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 58 9 The parasitic habit of Sphecodes explains the great variations in size, puncturation, etc. 1939 Amer. Midland Naturalist 22 50 Slight differences in puncturation which might appear to seperate them break down when long series are studied. 1962 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 31 143 Notiophilus aquaticus (L.)... Strong strial puncturations. 1984 Bull. Polish Acad. Sci.: Biol. Sci. 32 393 A shorter terminal abdominal segment, feebler puncturation of dorsal side of head and a denser setation of the terminal abdominal segment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1733 |
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