| 释义 |
self-ˈlimited, ppl. a.
[self- 2.]
1. Limited by oneself or itself.
1845Lewes Hist. Philos. I. 92 They held The One to be spherical:..having neither beginning, middle, nor end: and yet self-limited. 1879P. Brooks Infl. Jesus ii. (1883) 86 The..self-limited character of the love of Jesus for His native land.
2. Med. Of a disease: That runs a definite course, being little modified by treatment.
1855Dunglison Med. Lex. 1885J. F. Payne in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 166/1 The disease [sc. plague] was in fact, as in other cases, self-limited. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 781 Catarrhal dysentery..is a self-limited disease. |