单词 | carbunculous |
释义 | carbunculousadj. Medicine. Now rare. = carbuncular adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > boil phlegmonic?a1425 phlegmonous?c1425 carbunculous1543 carbuncular1722 phlegmonoid1751 furuncular1849 carbunculate1854 furunculoid1860 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. ii. iii. f. xlviiv/2 The fyrst cha. in whych the cure of all pustles is conteyned, and the generation of apostemes..and of carbunculouse pustles. 1589 J. Banister Antidotarie Chyrurg. 209 (heading) A powder to be vsed in the cure of the carbunculous pustule. 1639 J. Woodall Treat. Gangrena in Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 405 Pestilentiall or Carbunculous spots. 1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 281 The papulæ..are sometimes called carbunculous, because of their similitude to that kind of tumours, being then black and gangrenous. 1827 Lancet 21 July 511/1 The gangrene extended itself only to the integuments and cellular tissue, partaking of a carbunculous nature. 1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel I. ix. 69 An angry eye, and a carbunculous complexion. 1900 Lancet 8 Sept. 778/2 One of the medical staff working in the plague laboratory observed a carbunculous swelling on the nose of the servant attached to the laboratory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1543 |
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