单词 | cancelli |
释义 | cancellin. With plural agreement. 1. Bars of latticework; spec. the latticed screen between the choir and body of the church; hence the chancel n. (modern French cancel) so railed off. (Hardly in English use.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > screen > [noun] purpitle1354 screen1587 pulpitum1640 sept1640 cancelli1642 altar screena1691 reredos1745 jube1767 catapetasma1798 rood screen1817 iconostas1833 iconostasis1833 haikal screen1902 choir-screen- society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > chancel or sanctuary > [noun] chancel1303 sacrarya1387 sanctuarya1400 presbytery1466 presbyterium1565 cancelli1642 bema1683 sacrarium1727 haikal1884 1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 247 S. Ambrose his sending his Deacon to the Emperour, to desire him to goe forth of the Cancelli. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 27 The Altar is inclos'd with Cancelli. 2. a. Physiology. ‘The lattice-work of the spongy portion of bones, consisting of thin plates and bars interlacing with each other, and forming arches and buttresses in the direction of greatest pressure’. New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > substance of bones > [noun] > cancelli cancelli1802 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 371 The bone of the cavity of the tympanum in the cetacea..shewing no vestige of fibres, cancelli, or vessels. 1873 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1871–2 12 25 The cancelli..always run parallel with the axis of the bone. b. Improperly applied to the interstices between these bars and plates of bones. (Probably first extended to the whole cancellous or cancellated tissue, including the interstices, and then carelessly misapplied to the latter.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > substance of bones > [noun] > cancelli > interstices between cancelli1845 1845 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. I. 80 In the cancelli of bones there is a large deposit of fat. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 167 Mere cancelli, or small medullary cavities. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 20 Some bones have their entire substance replete with cavities or cancelli, and such are called cancellated or spongy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1642 |
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