单词 | imperspirable |
释义 | † imperspirableadj. Medicine. Obsolete. Incapable of producing or allowing the passage of perspiration. Also: incapable of being eliminated as perspiration or through the pores. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > hardening or thickening > afflicted with callosea1400 callousa1400 brawny1613 warded1658 imperspirable1668 callused1714 calloused1746 waulked1786 hoofed1828 horn-fisted1929 1668 E. Maynwaring Treat. Consumptions 43 The Pores are occluded and imperspirable. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xviii. 663 The humors are condensed, the skin made imperspirable [L. imperspirabilis]. 1744 tr. H. Boerhaave Acad. Lect. Theory Physic III. 299 A Cicatrix or imperspirable Crust is formed, instead of the Cuticle. 1753 J. Lind Treat. Scurvy ii. vi. 298 The effects of such viscid imperspirable food are particularly described by Sanctorius. 1837 D. Craigie Elements Pract. Physic I. i. ii. 159 The skin is hot, dry, and imperspirable. 1894 J. A. Hansey Cent. Cook Bk. 292 Should this treatment fail, and there be a dry imperspirable skin,..frequent draughts of flaxseed tea should be taken. Derivatives imperspirability n. rare the fact or condition of being imperspirable. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > hardening or thickening callosity?a1425 callousness1634 imperspirability1745 hyperkeratosis1841 scleroderma1873 sclerodermia1873 parakeratosis1885 acanthosis1887 tylosis1890 lichenification1892 sclerœdema1932 1745 J. Mitchell in Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 144 The Thickness and Density of the Skins of black and tawny People, or Imperspirability of their Bodies. 1789 W. Cullen Treat. Materia Medica I. ii. 389 I took notice above..of Dr Keill's opinion of the imperspirability of oysters, which are a substance somewhat similar to that of fishes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019). < adj.1668 |
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