单词 | inanition |
释义 | inanitionn. The action or process of emptying; the condition of being empty; spec. the exhausted condition resulting from want or insufficiency of nourishment. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > malnutrition > inanition inanitionc1400 c1400 tr. Lanfranc's Cirurg. 100 Of þe whiche drawynge þat ben .ij. causis coniunct: þe toon is repleccioun of þe senewe oþere of þe corde, þe oþer is in-anisioun. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 16v/1 Of inanition and repletion. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 169 In the Dogge-appetite there is no Inanition or emptinesse of the parts, but an exquisite sense of suction. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 308 Fevers, proceeds from too great Fulness in the beginning, and too great Inanition in the latter end of the Disease. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. II. 252 Anarchy..is usually shortlived, and perishes of inanition. 1866 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. 382 Inanition is a pathological condition entering into all diseases which interfere with the ingestion or assimilation of aliment. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 113 Hunger and thirst are inanitions of the body. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1400 |
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