单词 | emprosthotonos |
释义 | emprosthotonosn. Medicine. Sustained muscular spasm causing the body to arch forwards, with the head approaching the chest, sometimes occurring in tetanus, certain types of poisoning, etc.; an instance of this. Cf. episthotonos n., opisthotonos n.In extended use in quot. 1973. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp cramp1374 emprosthotonosa1398 spasmc1400 spasmusc1400 crickc1424 crumpa1500 misspringinga1500 spasma?1541 convulsion1585 catch1830 kink1848 tonus1891 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > tetanus tetanusa1398 shotec1440 opisthotonos1582 emprosthotonos1585 jaw-fallen1631 tetanism1681 trismus1684 locked jaw1754 lockjaw1768 pleurothotonos1783 seven day disease1789 orthotonos1869 pleurotonus1899 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xiii. 358 Þat oþir [spasm] hatte eprocostenus [1582 Emprosthotonos; L. eprocostenus], and is when þe furþer synowis toward þe brest schrinken. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 105 Special signes maken oon of þre maner of crampis: þe toon is clepid amprostonos, þe toþer empistenos [v.r. empistonos], þe iij tetanus..in empistonies þe necke is crokid. 1585 W. Bayley Disc. Mithridatium sig. D.6 It helpeth ye diseases of the sineues, ye resolution, ye paulsye, the crampe, ye diseases called Tetanos Ambrostotonos, and Opistetanos. 1633 Gutta Podagrica 10 If it flow forward into the muscles of the breast, another convulsion is caused called emprosthotonos, wherein the head and the feet are drawn together forward. 1671 R. Selbie Let. Mar. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 532 Your dropsies, Convulsions, and Convulsive motions: As your Emprostotonos & opistotonos wch are much more strainge and terrible then a Compleat Convulsion. 1769 Compend. Physic & Surg. xxiii. 137 In the emprosthotonus the anterior muscles of the neck, and body, are so spasmodically affected, as to draw the head down to the breast, and to bend the spine strongly forward. 1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia II. 326 When these convulsive motions bend the body forwards, they are termed emprosthotonoi; when they bend it backward, they are termed opisthotonoi. 1846 London Med. Gaz. 2 137/1 I have also remarked that in animals poisoned by prussic acid, where emprosthotonos and convulsions of the posterior extremities ensued, that they died in a violent muscular spasm, with the limbs and tail perfectly rigid while the body was warm. 1871 T. Watson Lect. Physic (ed. 5) I. 559 The only example of emprosthotonos which I ever saw. 1946 F. Hutyra et al. Special Pathol. & Therapeutics I. 514 Dreymann, Shadow and Beyer observed marked upward curving of the vertebral column (emprosthotonos) in one case. 1973 O. Sacks Awakenings i. 34 She was able to raise her head briefly, but it would return to its habitual position of extreme emprosthotonos, with the chin wedged down on the sternum. 2010 Toxins 2 651 Various nervous symptoms such as torticollis, emprosthotonus, lurch, reeling gait (staggering step) and tremor were seen in different degree in all chicks treated with OTA [= ochratoxin A] alone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398 |
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