单词 | hunterian |
释义 | Hunterianadj. Of or belonging to John Hunter (1728–1793), a famous Scottish surgeon and physiologist, or his elder brother William Hunter (1718–1783), an anatomist and obstetric surgeon; esp. in Hunterian (also Hunter's) canal , Hunterian chancre (see quots.), investigated by John Hunter. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [adjective] > 18th century Harveian1755 Hunteriana1819 pre-Listerian1881 a1819 R. Watt Bibliotheca Brit. (1824) III. (at cited word) Hunterian Museum,..consisting principally of Collections in Natural History, the Fine Arts, and Antiquities, now the property of the Glasgow University. 1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. i. xxx. 355 That most of the Hunterian theories about it were always false. 1875 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims ix. 220 The Hunterian law of arrested developement is not confined to vegetable and animal structure. 1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Chancre The Hunterian or hard chancre being the local manifestation of syphilis. 1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Hunter's canal, a triangular canal giving passage to the femoral artery and vein and the internal saphenous nerve. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.a1819 |
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