单词 | subcardinal |
释义 | subcardinaladj.n. A. adj. 1. Subsidiary to or of lesser importance than a cardinal point, position, etc.; spec. designating the four points of the compass midway between the cardinal points, i.e. NE, SE, SW, and NW. ΚΠ 1702 G. Harvey Vanities Philos. & Physick (ed. 3) iii. 169 Virtue divided into Cardinal, Sub cardinal. 1744 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 14 The cardinal and subcardinal Points of the Compass. 1853 H. A. Boardman Bible in Counting-house viii. 295 The throng of impatient customers from the ‘far West’ and the far South and all the sub-cardinal points between. 1914 Jrnl. Assoc. Engin. Soc. 53 196 All the roads radiate from Forth Worth, eight in number, now known as the Cardinal and Sub-Cardinal roads, so named for the reason that they follow..the cardinal compass directions, the sub-cardinal roads being within the intervening angles. 2004 D. C. Wong Chinese Steles iv. 66 These massive pillars mark the cardinal and sub-cardinal points of the temple compound. 2. Zoology and Palaeontology. Located beneath the cardinal (hinge) area of a bivalved shell. ΚΠ 1848 Mem. Geol. Surv. Great Brit. II. i. 362 Posterior side smooth, very long, with the sub-cardinal and two other faint furrows. 1864 Geol. Mag. 1 12 The subcardinal ridge is so much stronger than in any species of Ceratiocaris I am acquainted with, that I am compelled to give a new name. 1895 F. R. C. Reed in Cambr. Nat. Hist. III. 494 The muscle-scars in this family..are most remarkable for the development of the so-called ‘crescent’,..which skirts the posterior margin of both valves as a sub-cardinal impression. 1956 Jrnl. Paleontol. 30 877/1 The absence of a subcardinal myophore apophysis precludes establishing affinities with Gemmellaroia, another coral-like brachiopod. 1998 Rec. Austral. Mus. 50 185/2 A massive muscle (attached to the ventral cardinal socket and inserted in the dorsal subcardinal depression) was essential in Belubula. 3. Embryology. Located beneath a cardinal vein; spec. designating a vein which develops ventral and parallel to the posterior cardinal vein at one stage of the embryogenesis of the posterior (inferior) vena cava in many vertebrate embryos; of or relating to this vein. ΚΠ 1900 W. M. Wheeler in Zool. Jahrbücher: Abt. f. Anat. u. Ontogenie der Thiere 13 43 This is the formation on either side just beneath the cardinal vein of a large sinus—the subcardinal sinus. 1902 F. T. Lewis in Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 1 234 This new vessel I would designate as the subcardinal vein, Vena subcardinalis. 1951 G. R. de Beer Vertebr. Zool. (ed. 2) xiii. 186 Beneath the hind portion of the posterior cardinal veins, the subcardinal veins arise, in the region of the mesonephros. 1989 Seminars Roentgenol. 24 50/1 Failure of the right subcardinal vein to anastomose with the hepatic veins during fetal development results in interruption of the IVC [= inferior vena cava] and azygos or hemiazygos continuation. 2009 G. R. Upchurch & E. Criado Aortic Aneurysms xx. 291 The subcardinal veins inferior to the aortic collar regress, as does the right subcardinal vein superior to the anastomosis to the hepatic veins. B. n. Embryology. A subcardinal vein. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > specific vein middle veina1398 portaa1398 saphena1398 funisa1400 sciaticaa1400 guidesc1400 haemorrhoidc1400 salvatellac1400 liver veina1425 median?a1425 mesaraic?a1425 sciatic?a1425 venal artery?a1425 sciat1503 organal vein1523 axillar?1541 weeping vein1543 port-vein1586 lip-vein1598 nose vein1598 sciatic vein1598 cephalic vein1599 hollow vein1605 jugular1615 scapulary1615 subclavian vein1615 umbilical vessel1615 basilica1625 porter-vein1625 neck vein1639 garter-vein1656 matricious vein1656 sacred vein1656 subclavicular1656 subclavial1664 vertebral1718 portal vein1765 cava1809 satellite vein1809 brachial1859 innominate vein1866 precaval1866 postcava1882 precava1882 postcaval1891 Vesalian vein1891 sciatic1892 subcardinal1902 1902 J. P. McMurrich Devel. Human Body 284 The lower portion of the right subcardinal undergoes degeneration, while the left one, diminishing in size, persists as the left suprarenal vein. 1917 J. S. Kingsley Outl. Compar. Anat. Vertebr. (ed. 2) 315 The subcardinals of the two sides usually fuse in the middle line. 1965 L. B. Arey Developmental Anat. (ed. 7) xix. 360 Somewhat later two other pairs of veins, the subcardinals and the supracardinals, successively replace and supplement the postcardinals. 2008 Moss & Adams' Heart Dis. Infants, Children & Adolescents (ed. 7) xxxviii. 793/2 As the mesonephroi increase in size and bulge toward the midline, the subcardinals are brought closer together. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1702 |
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