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单词 arthrology
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arthrologyn.

Brit. /ɑːˈθrɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ɑrˈθrɑlədʒi/
Forms:

α. 1600s– (now rare) arthrologia.

β. 1600s arthrologie, 1800s– arthrology.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: arthro- comb. form, -logy comb. form.
Etymology: < arthro- comb. form + -logy comb. form. In sense 2 after French arthrologie (1834 or earlier).With sense 1 compare chirology n., dactylology n.
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.
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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).
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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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