单词 | redux |
释义 | reduxadj. 1. Brought back, restored; experienced or considered for a second time; revisited. Chiefly as postmodifier. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [adjective] restored1538 reduxa1612 a1612 W. Fowler Wks. (1914) I. 266 Commend deare vix, who after perrelous procells is redux to keepe thy fame from Letheen Laik and Stix. 1624 E. Bolton Nero Caesar xi. 15 I wish we had a current.. britannia redvx, as there was a roma resvrgens. 1873 A. Trollope (title) Phineas redux. 1926 E. C. Knowlton in Rev. Eng. Stud. 499 Falstaff Redux. 1935 Times 21 Jan. 15/5 (headline) Buckingham redux. 1993 Spy (N.Y.) Oct. 6/1 But the 1980s were far more than just the '50s redux. 2007 New Yorker 8 Oct. 32/1 Many African-Americans understand the case not only as the civil-rights era redux but as a stark illustration of a here-and-now problem. 2. Medicine. Designating any sound heard during auscultation of the chest that indicates resolution of a pathological process. Also as postmodifier. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [adjective] > sounds in auscultation puerile1821 pectoriloquous1824 large1827 sibilant1833 tubular1834 moist1843 rhonchal1843 pectoriloquial1846 redux1848 murmurish1851 rhonchial1852 bronchophonic1862 sticky1872 coarse1879 skodaic1882 1827 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 2) 441 In chronic cases..this renewed ægophonism (ægophonia redux) is much less perceptible.] 1848 R. J. Graves Clin. Lect. Pract. Med. (ed. 2) II. xli. 36 Nature accomplishes the resolution of pneumonia..by secretion into the aircells and minute bronchial tubes, and it is the presence of this secretion which gives rise to the crepitus redux. 1858 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 36 331 When improvement commenced, in place of the redux crepitation, the ordinary submucous rales appeared. 1868 Lancet 14 Mar. 337/2 And now muco-crepitation, of the sort we call redux in the adult, appears. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 360 Friction sound, indicative of restored contact between the pleural surfaces, redux friction as it is usually called. 1903 J. M. Anders Text-bk. Pract. Med. (ed. 6) i. 147 The softened exudate in the air-cells gives rise to subcrepitant râles, heard both on inspiration and expiration (râle redux). 1928 Lancet 24 Nov. 1076/1 Though the lower half of the chest was wanting in resonance, it was not so dull as in empyema, and redux crepitations could be heard nearly to the base. 1952 Q. Jrnl. Med. 21 320 She probably showed the ‘redux’ friction of a disappearing effusion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1612 |
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