单词 | goitre |
释义 | goitren. 1. Pathology. A morbid (often enormously developed) enlargement of the thyroid gland of the neck; bronchocele. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > goitre wen1530 strume1559 struma1565 Bavarian poke1621 goitre1625 bronchocele1657 throat rupture1662 strumosity1674 Derby neck1769 Derbyshire neck1802 tracheocele1828 Graves's disease1868 thyrocele1886 strumitis1889 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. 1624 The Gouitres of Sauoye. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xlii. 86 The peeple who dwell in the Valleys..are subject to a strange swelling in the Throat, call'd Goytre. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 5 The Goistre of Piedmont. 1693 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 638 Persons..troubled with these disfiguring Goitres. 1752 ‘H. Beaumont’ Crito 49 That sort of Swellings in the Neck, which they call Goters. 1838 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) VI. 379 Those inhabitants of the Alps who suffer with goitres. 1871 S. Smiles Character vi. 175 There is a village in South America where gotos or goitres are so common that to be without one is regarded as a deformity. 2. A swelling of the neck in certain lizards. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of reptiles > [noun] goitre1834 red-leg1905 mouth rot1946 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (new ed.) II. 31 The greater proportion of them [Anolis] have a dewlap or goitre under the throat. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xxii. 430 They [the Guanas] are remarkable—as well as the Anolis, for the kind of goitre in their throat, which..they can inflate to a large size. Compounds goitre-stick n. the stems of the Sargassum bacciferum (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for thyroid conditions > plant-derived goitre-stick1860 1860 R. Fowler Med. Vocab. Goitre-sticks, the stems of a sea-weed, chewed in South America as a remedy for goitre. Derivatives ˈgoitral adj. [-al suffix1] = goitrous adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [adjective] > goitre wenny1630 goitrous1796 goitral1836 goitred1851 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 471/2 The goitral..affections..are striking examples of the effect of hereditary influence. ˈgoitred adj. [-ed suffix2] = goitrous adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [adjective] > goitre wenny1630 goitrous1796 goitral1836 goitred1851 1851 E. Ruskin Let. 24 Aug. in Effie in Venice (1965) ii. 183 The number of Cretins and Goitred persons is perfectly dreadful. 1923 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 152/1 A gentle frog-like croak proceeded from the goitred throat. goitre-like adj. ΚΠ 1849 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom (new ed.) 277 The greater number have a goitre-like appendage under the throat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1625 |
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