| 释义 |
▪ I. ‖ Pandy, n.2 E. Ind.|ˈpændɪ|
Also -ee.
[According to Yule, from the surname Paṇḍe, the title of a Jōt or subdivisional branch of the Brahmins of the Upper Province, which was very common among the high-caste sepoys of the Bengal army. One of those bearing the surname was Mangul Paṇḍe, the first man to mutiny in the 34th Regiment.]
A colloquial name for a revolted sepoy in the Indian Mutiny of 1857–9.
1857H. Greathed Lett. Siege Delhi (1858) 99 As long as I feel the entire confidence I do..I cannot feel gloomy. I leave that feeling to the Pandees. 1864Trevelyan Compet. Wallah (1866) 247 He was separated from his squadron, and surrounded by a party of desperate Pandies. 1893W. Forbes-Mitchell Remin. Gt. Mutiny 164 We captured those guns that the Pandies were carrying off. 1897Ld. Roberts 41 Yrs. in India I. vi. 62
▪ II. Pandy, n.3 Med.|ˈpændɪ|
The name of Kalman Pandy (b. 1868), Hungarian neurologist, used attrib. or in the possessive to denote a reaction or test he devised for globulins in the spinal fluid, in which a sample is treated with a dilute aqueous solution of phenol.
1916L. F. Barker Monographic Med. II. 83 Pandy's test has not received the attention it deserves. 1933W. R. Brain Dis. Nervous Syst. 113 Pandy's reaction is the most sensitive, and may yield a weakly positive result with normal fluids. 1963Lancet 12 Jan. 108/1 Lumbar puncture on the ninth day of the illness yielded clear fluid..; the Pandy test was negative. |