α. 1600s– (now rare) arthrologia.
β. 1600s arthrologie, 1800s– arthrology.
单词 | arthrology |
释义 | arthrologyn.α. 1600s– (now rare) arthrologia. β. 1600s arthrologie, 1800s– arthrology. 1. The systematic use of the fingers and hands as a means of communication; a manual alphabet. Cf. dactylology n., chirology n. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > sign language hand language1625 arthrology1641 chirology1656 dactylology1656 finger-talk1656 finger language1669 hand alphabet1680 semiology1694 finger alphabet1751 finger talking1823 sign language1824 finger speech1826 indigitation1826 manual alphabet1876 dactylography1884 signing1891 American Sign Language1900 sign1930 British Sign Language1961 ASL1965 Ameslan1972 Yerkish1973 1641 J. Wilkins Mercury xiv. 115 Such is that upon the joynts and fingers of the hand, commonly stiled Arthrologia, or Dactylogia. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 99 Sometimes the Ancients did to this purpose of secrecie and private communication, order an Alphabet upon the joynts of their Fingers, which Artifice of Arthrologie obtained a privy force. 1694 Wks. Rabelais Preface p. xcix And the Venerable Bede has made a Book only of that, commonly stiled Arthrologia, or Dactylogia. 2003 R. Sutton-Spence in L. Monaghan et al. Many Ways to be Deaf ii. 32 He [sc. Wilkins] mentioned that arthrology was of 'especial note for (its) use and antiquity'. 2. Anatomy. The branch of anatomy dealing with the joints. Also: †a description of or treatise on the joints (obsolete. rare). ΚΠ 1841 W. H. Madden & W. Sharpey tr. J. Cruveilhier Descriptive Anat. I. in A. Tweedie Libr. Med. VII. 148 The study of these parts is the object of syndesmology, or more properly of arthrology. 1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 84/1 Arthrology, a description of the joints. 1886 Lancet 11 Sept. 483/2 The candidate for the lower grade licence is examined in physics, chemistry, natural history, osteology, and arthrology. 1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) iv. 420/1 The study of arthrology brings together, in what is functionally a rather unsatisfactory association, skeletal dispositions concerned with growth, rigidity, and movement. 2003 Jrnl. Manipulative & Physiol. Therapeutics 26 273/1 The second chapter covers arthrology, beginning with the classification scheme of the joints. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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