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单词 intorsion
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intorsionn.

/ɪnˈtɔːʃən/
Etymology: < French intorsion, < Latin intortiōn-em , noun of action < intorquēre : see intort v.
The action of twisting; spec. in Botany the twisting of the stem of a plant; in Ophthalmology (see quots.).
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the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [noun] > torsion or nutation
intorsion1760
resupination1760
nutation1789
torsion1875
circumnutation1880
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > squinting or cross-eyes
cast1505
squint-eyedness1591
squinting1626
squinta1652
squintness1656
strabism1656
strabismus1684
cockeye1738
goggle-eye1822
nystagmus1822
cross-eyes1826
cross-eyedness1846
anorthopia1849
heterophthalmy1854
hyperphoria1881
heterophoria1886
hypertropia1897
intorsion1899
hypophoria1932
prairie squint1937
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xiv. 197 Intorsion, Winding, is the Flexion or Bending of any Part of a Plant towards one Side.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxi. 485 The intorsion, or manner of turning or bending in the stems.
1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860)
1887 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Intorsion, applied by Linnæus to the phenomenon presented by certain plants which twine around a support by means of their flexible stalks.
1899 A. Duane tr. E. Fuchs Text-bk. Ophthalmol. (ed. 2) xiv. 578 It [sc. the superior rectus muscle] also rolls the eye in such a way that the upper extremity of its vertical meridian is inclined inward (intorsion).
1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxviii. 446 An involuntary movement of torsion: intorsion when the upper pole of the cornea rotates nasally, extorsion when temporally.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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