单词 | great vessel |
释义 | > as lemmasgreat vessel great vessel n. [after post-classical Latin vas magnum (1526 or earlier)] a large blood vessel; spec. any of those entering and leaving the heart, esp. the aorta or the pulmonary artery (cf. great artery n.). ΚΠ 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iv. iii. 176 This feuer Synochus putrida or continens febris is caused when all the humoures do putrifie and rot equallie togither within all the vesselles, and specially in the great vesselles, which be about the armeholes, and the share. 1663 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xxii. 55/1 Whence Hippocrates calls it [sc. the right testicle] the Boy-getter, because it receives more pure and hot blood and Spirits out of the great Vessel, viz. the great Artery. 1795 Mem. Med. Soc. London 4 xx. 276 The heart, pericardium and great vessels had a tendency..to produce an amplification of the left [cavity of the thorax]. 1872 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. vi. 218 The heart and the roots of the great vessels which proceed from it are..placed within the inner wall of this pleuro-peritoneal cavity. 1902 Internat. Jrnl. Surg. Jan. 23/2 Though the bone was extensively injured, and rather extensive decortication was present, the great vessels and nerves remaining intact, a conservative operation..gave excellent results. 2004 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 21 Aug. c6/2 The next morning, Sandra received the news that Robert was diagnosed with Transposition of the Great Vessels. In very simple terms, the vessels on the heart are reversed. < as lemmas |
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