| 单词 | common vein |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon vein common vein n. now historical (rare after 17th cent.) the median vein of the forearm, frequently used for bloodletting; (occasionally also) either of the other main superficial veins of the forearm (the basilic and cephalic veins). [The semantic motivation for the original use of this name appears to be the same as in sense A. 21. Compare Middle French veine commune median vein of the forearm (1425).] ΚΠ a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 159 (MED) Comun veyne, eiþir myddil veyne, þe which þat is compounned of basilica & cephalica. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. ii. iii. ii. f. li/1 But yf the bodye be full of euell humours after the doctours, the commune veyne, or the veyne of the lyuer muste be cutte in the opposite syde of the sore eye. 1687 Chirurgorum Comes vii. xl. 619/1 There is not another [nerve] in the whole body, that I know of, which is so usually hurt; besides that, in the middle of the Bent of the Arm, that lies under the common vein (or rather the tendon of the musculus biceps). 1994 P. Gil-Sotres in L. García-Ballester et al. Pract. Med. from Salerno to Black Death iv. 150 Guy de Chauliac..recommended a longitudinal opening in the so-called common veins, that is to say, the three largest veins of the angle of the elbow. < as lemmas |
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