| 单词 | railway spine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrailway spine railway spine n. Medicine (now historical) a disorder characterized by pain in the back with sensory and motor nervous dysfunction, occurring esp. after a railway accident (originally attributed to solely to physical, and later also to psychological, trauma); cf. railway brain n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > disorders of vertebrae railway spine1866 siderodromophobia1879 Kümmell's disease1903 slipped disc1953 1866 J. E. Erichsen On Railway & Other Injuries Nerv. Syst. 9 In no ordinary accident can the shock be so great as in those that occur on Railways... This has actually led some surgeons to designate that particular affection of the Spine that is met with in these cases as the ‘railway spine’. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Nov. It is now stated..that the Tzar is suffering from ‘railway spine’. 2000 Jrnl. Affective Disorders 61 226/2 Much of the psychological phenomenology incorporated in the PTSD [= post-traumatic stress disorder] diagnosis has long been recognized, and at least partially captured in disorders such as railway spine, irritable heart syndrome, shell shock, [etc.]. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Dec. 30/2 It makes no mention of the inflammation of the soul called Phrenitis, nor of the dreaded Railway Spine. < as lemmas |
| 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。