单词 | sunray lamp |
释义 | > as lemmassunray lamp b. Designating artificial ultraviolet light used for medical treatment or (later) for tanning, esp. in sunray lamp (cf. sunlamp n. (a) at sun n.1 Compounds 5a), sunray treatment. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1916 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 18 Nov. 907/2 A lamp to be used for the sun ray treatment. 1928 Daily Express 27 June 3/6 The..pressing need for the sun-ray treatment to be brought within the reach of everybody by the speedy erection in all suitable places of sun-ray clinics. 1954 ‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom ii. xii. 164 Does this young lady..own a sun-ray lamp? 1977 ‘C. Fremlin’ Spider-orchid xxii. 149 He looked from the bedside table to the sunray lamp. 2013 Bristol Post (Nexis) 10 Dec. 6 I was one of the recipients of so-called sun-ray treatment at Tower Hill Clinic in the 1940s. < as lemmas |
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