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单词 ectomorph
释义

ectomorphn.

/ˈɛktəʊmɔːf/
Etymology: < ecto- comb. form + -morph comb. form.
Anthropometry.
A person with the lean body-build in which the physical structures developed from the ectodermal layer of the embryo, i.e. the skin and the nervous system, predominate: one of W. H. Sheldon's three constitutional types (cf. endomorph n. 2, mesomorph n.).
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having
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asthenic1925
ectomorph1940
skinny-malinky1957
matchstick1959
1940 W. H. Sheldon Varieties of Human Physique i. 5 In proportion to his mass, the ectomorph has the greatest surface area and hence relatively the greatest sensory exposure to the outside world.
1954 R. Fuller Fantasy & Fugue iv. 75 Now you..unfortunately incline to the cerebrotonic ectomorph—you worry too much, you're too good looking, and you can't abandon yourself happily to booze.
1961 New Scientist 6 Apr. 854/1 The ectomorph is much more of an introvert and more shrewd and calculating.
1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 345 The chirpy social endomorph will give a different picture of it from that of the melancholic withdrawn ectomorph.

Derivatives

ˈectomorphic adj.
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1940 W. H. Sheldon Varieties of Human Physique iii. 45 Hair of ectomorphic people is of nearly the same abundance as in the case of endomorphy.
1956 C. P. Snow Homecomings li. 367 His profile confronted hers, each of them firm and beautiful in their ectomorphic lines.
ˈectomorphy n.
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1940 W. H. Sheldon Varieties of Human Physique i. 5 Ectomorphy means relative predominance of linearity and fragility.
1962 Listener 24 May 905/2 A sort of parlour game, deciding how many points he scores for endomorphy, mesomorphy, and ectomorphy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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