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单词 suffusion
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suffusionn.

/səˈfjuːʒən/
Forms: Also 1600s -tion.
Etymology: < Latin suffūsio, -ōnem, noun of action < suffūs- (see suffuse v.). Compare French suffusion, Italian suffusione, etc.
1. The defluxion or extravasation of a fluid or ‘humour’ over a part of the body; †concrete the fluid itself; spec. in Old Medicine, cataract.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > cataract
pearla1382
suffusion1398
cataract1547
tay1547
eye-pearl1597
eye-web1657
hypophysis1706
pearl eye1844
gutta opaca1847
nuclear cataract1876
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion
moisturea1387
juice1398
suck1560
recrement1578
suffusion1608
fluid1705
succus1771
liquor1886
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion > flow of
fluxion?1541
suffusion1728
determination1740
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. xli An oynemente þat..helpeþ aȝens suffusion of yȝen.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 235 Ther is a Cataract which doth light vpon the eyes of a Hawke, whome we may tearme a suffusion.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 209 The braine [of lizards] is profitable for suffusions.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 26 So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veild. View more context for this quotation
1674 W. Bates Harmony Divine Attributes vii. 140 As the Eye that is clouded with a Suffusion, so that all things appear yellow to it.
1688 R. Boyle Vitiated Sight in Disquis. Final Causes Nat. Things 251 I have observed them [sc. flyes in the eye] to continue many years without being more than a bastard suffusion, as Physicians speake.
1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) Suffusion of the Eye, in a Horse, is a Sort of Pin and Web.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Jaundice is a Suffusion of Bile over the whole Body.
1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 70 A Suffusion or Defluxion in their Feet.
1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) (at cited word) A suffusion, or extravasation of some humour, as of blood in the eye.
2. The action of suffusing a surface with fluid, moisture, or colour; the condition of being suffused or overspread. Also, an instance of this.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > as or with something spread over > with fluid, light, or colour
suffusion1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Suffusion, a suffusion, or powring vpon; a spreading abroad.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems 253 Miry clods of this accursed earth Whose dull suffusions make her often sown.
1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 65 In dim suffusion lies The glance divine, that lighten'd in their eyes.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xxx. 178 The golden glow..O'er which in slight suffusion flows A frequent tinge of paly rose.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xi. 127 He had..a furious aspect, suffusion of the eyes..and perfect sleeplessness.
1872 C. Darwin Expression Emotions Man & Animals viii. 218 The suffusion of the eyes with tears.
figurative.1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 224 Because he being deeply tinctured, as it were, with the Suffusions of it [sc. a doctrine], every thing which he look'd upon, seem'd to him coloured with it.1789 A. Young Jrnl. 9 Dec. in Trav. France (1792) i. 251 There is in this painting such a suffusion of grace, and such a blaze of beauty [etc.].1852 Ld. Cockburn Life Jeffrey I. 91 A clear sweet voice, and a general suffusion of elegance.
3. A colouring or tint spread over a surface, esp. over the skin by the action of the blood, etc.; frequently a flush of colour in the face, a blush.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [noun] > with blushing
blushing1581
flushing1590
suffusion1700
flush1706
bloom1752
mantling1753
rouge1759
hectic1768
vermilion1787
smoking1862
mantle1897
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 513 The disk of Phœbus when he climbs on high, Appears at first but as a bloodshot Eye; And when his Chariot downward drives to Bed, His Ball is with the same Suffusion red.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 390. ⁋1 Would she not be much more modest without that ambiguous Suffusion?
1745 M. Akenside Against Suspicion in Odes ii Already in your eyes I see a pale suffusion rise.
1764 Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 232 He..had a yellow suffusion over his skin.
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 102 A beautiful suffusion of purple.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 246 The deadly paleness..gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. viii. 93 The tunica adnata was of a pearl-white colour, without the slightest suffusion.
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