单词 | receptaculum |
释义 | receptaculumn. 1. Anatomy and Zoology. = receptacle n. 1.Originally (and still often) occurring in scientific Latin compounds with a distinguishing word specifying the substance contained in or received by the organ, as receptaculum chyli (of chyle), receptaculum seminis (of semen), etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > organ receiving secretion > [noun] receptaclea1398 receptory?a1425 receptaculum1667 retentives1678 1659 W. Charleton Nat. Hist. Nutrition 16 Which..running in continued channells from thence into the Mesentery: carry the Chyle into a certain common Receptacle or Gulph (called Receptaculum Pecqueti, from the inventor) consisting of a membranous substance, situate at the root of the mesentery.] 1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 199 Relations of several Chirurgical operations: of renewing the beating of the heart, by blowing into the Receptaculum chyli: of the Art of perfectly restoring Nerves, transversly cut, [etc.]. 1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5011/2 But the thing required here is, the passage from the Receptaculum to the Lumbary vein, or to any other vein besides the Subclavial. 1707 J. Drake Anthropol. Nova I. i. xii. 87 The Receptaculum, or Cisterna Chyli, lies near the left Kidney, under the Emulgent and great Artery. 1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 200 Into the above-mentioned receptaculum, the lymphatics of the stomach and duodenum likewise enter. 1837 J. Wardrop On Nature & Treatm. Dis. Heart 46 The pulmonary vessels serving as a receptaculum or reservoir for receiving any surplus quantity of blood..which the cavities of the heart cannot admit. 1870 Proc. Royal Soc. 1869–70 18 277 The cavæ and right auricle in one side, and the pulmonary vessels and left auricle in the other side being, for a time the safety reservoirs or receptacula of the blood waiting to be forwarded. 1899 Zeitschr. f. Wissensch. Zool. 66 26 The sheeptick has no receptaculum seminis of the form usual in insects. 1905 Lancet 7 Oct. 1034/2 Whether the cyst was a dilatation of the receptaculum chyli or of one of its tributaries could not be made out. 1952 M. Rothschild & T. Clay Fleas, Flukes & Cuckoos vii. 65 The internal organ which receives and stores the sperm from the male, the receptaculum seminis or spermatheca (unpaired in all British bird fleas) is chitinised. 2006 Jrnl. Morphol. 267 166/1 Huge masses of secretions forming large balls are detected in the female receptacula. 2. a. Botany. = receptacle n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > receptacle or thalamus receptaculum1725 receptacle1753 thalamus1753 torus1829 1725 J. Douglas Lilium Sarniense 14 This middle Substance has been but very indistinctly taken notice of by Botanical Writers, before Pontedera, and by him, on account of the use he assigns to it..it is termed Receptaculum. 1770 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland II. 89 Flowers small, greenish. Receptaculum about two inches long, cylindrical, like that of the plantain, but not so thick. 1808 Monthly Rev. Sept. 31 This common point of insertion he denominates torus, to distinguish it from the receptaculum of aggregate and syngenesious flowers. 1919 New Phytologist 18 131 It is noteworthy that the earliest known receptacula..are small and almost flat. 1981 Sci. Hort. 14 382 When the petal primordia at the inner side of the base of the sepals also becomes visible; the receptaculum was still flat. b. Chiefly Mycology = receptacle n. 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > [noun] > parts of or related to > spore-case > surface or structure bearing receptaculum1796 thecophore1832 sporocarp1849 sporangiophore1875 1796 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 503 The germen [of Chara] has no pistillum, and is probably fecundated through its receptaculum. 1896 Bot. Gaz. 22 274 The fructification of Clathrus columnatus has a receptaculum consisting of from two to five vertically ascending columns which..join together at their apices. 1917 J. W. Harshberger Text-bk. Mycol. & Plant Pathol. xxi. 248 The elongation of the receptacle in Clathrus columnatus begins at the base, and after its elongation the gleba hangs suspended from the arch of the receptaculum. 1993 Rev. Paleobot. & Palynol. 78 235/2 The sori are arranged in two rows along the midrib on the lower side of the leaf. They consist of a ring of ovoid sporangia around a receptaculum (or placenta) that is expanded at its apex. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1667 |
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