| 单词 | golden vein |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgolden vein golden vein n. [after early modern German guldin ader (1515 in the passage translated in quot. 1527; German Goldader)] now historical haemorrhoids.Spontaneous bleeding from haemorrhoids was regarded as a natural means of therapeutic bloodletting. ΚΠ 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Dija/1 The same [sc. greate plantayn water] is good agaynste the flode & bledynge of the golden vayne [Ger. guldin adern]. 1867 C. G. Raue Special Pathol. & Diagnostics 289 This is a list of the most annoying, and frequently the most depressing, features of the so-called golden vein, which is far more appropriately called ‘piles’. 1998 Eighteenth-cent. Stud. 32 106 The shared pain of the golden vein raised uncomfortable fears for the emerging bourgeois body politic. 2013 B. Duden in P. Horden & E. Hsu Body in Balance (2015) ii. 62 Healthful bleeding from the golden vein in men and periodic bleeding of women was perceived as analogous. < as lemmas |
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