单词 | alvine |
释义 | alvineadj. Medicine. Now rare and chiefly historical. Designating an excretion from the intestines or (rarely) other organ of the belly. Also: designating the intestinal tract; of or relating to the intestinal tract. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > internal organs > cavities occupied by internal organs > [adjective] > abdomen cœliacal1615 cœliac1662 alvine1715 ventral1744 intra-abdominal1887 1636 J. Sadler Sicke Womans Private Looking-glasse xv. 152 Sometimes..by one of the three alvine fluxes. 1715 J. Delacoste tr. H. Boerhaave Aphorisms 244 For from the Liver do depend all the Bowels of the Abdomen, and consequently all their Actions, of Digestion, Assimilation, Nutrition, supplying the Blood with new Fewel, and the Alvine Excretion. 1740 H. Warren Treat. Malignant Fever Barbados 39 In some Constitutions I have met with a natural Proneness to Alvine Dejections. 1755 Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 581 As to the natural excretions, the alvine were easy and proper. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 272 The absorbents which drink up the subacted food from the alvine canal. 1853 R. Barwell Asiatic Cholera 69 This particular form is always accompanied by a peculiar alvine disorder, or, perhaps, is rather preceded, and in part induced, by an action causing alvine disturbance. 1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 212 The alvine dejections..consist at first of fluidified fæces. 1913 M. J. Rosenau Preventive Med. & Hygiene i. ii. 74 Every case of typhoid fever means a short circuit between the alvine discharges of one person and the mouth of another. 1941 Lancet 29 Mar. 427/2 Inquiries..as to how the [medical] students behaved produced the startling reply that they were not ‘house-trained’. In my low mind this phenomenon was associated with the alvine discharges of infants and dogs. 1993 Clin. Infectious Dis. 16 582/1 Infectious diarrheas fluctuated throughout the year and were known by popular names such as the ‘Tennessee trots’, the ‘Virginia quickstep’, and the ‘alvine flux’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1636 |
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