单词 | intorsion |
释义 | intorsionn. The action of twisting; spec. in Botany the twisting of the stem of a plant; in Ophthalmology (see quots.). ΘΚΠ 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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