单词 | internode |
释义 | internoden. 1. Anatomy and Zoology. Originally: †a segment of a finger or toe located between two joints or ending in a joint; (also) any of the individual bones (phalanges) of a finger or toe (obsolete). In later use: any of various other structures located between two nodes or joints; spec. a segment of a nerve fibre located between two nodes of Ranvier. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > parts of bones > [noun] > slender part neck1578 internode1657 internodium1664 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of hand or foot > [noun] > bones of fingers or toes internode1657 internodium1664 phalanx1684 phalange1688 ungual phalanx1834 phalangeal1849 1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rand tr. J. Riolan Sure Guide i. xxiii. 18 Smal Bones fil up and strengthen the internodes of the Fingers and Toes in such as are grown up. 1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 2 Descending over the first Internode of the said Finger. 1745 J. Parsons Crounian Lect. 26 in Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 That they divide them [sc. muscular fibres] thus into Bladders at equal Internodes, we must deny. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xxxvii. 9 At the union of the [neural] chords..a knot or ganglion is usually formed, and an alternate succession of internodes and ganglions commonly follows. 1872 Academy 3 170/2 A small mass of protoplasm or nucleus is found at some point along the length of each internode [in a nerve-fibre]. 1885 F. Warner Physical Expression ix. 155 The individual bones of the fingers and thumb are termed ‘internodes’. 1967 Brain 90 303 In some parts where myelin disintegration was present, axons appeared to pass through internodes which were completely free of myelin. 2002 M. Malik-Hall et al. in S. J. Moss & J. Henley Receptor & Ion-channel Trafficking i. 12 Myelinated fibres are organized into distinct domains: the internode, the juxtaparanodal and paranodal regions, and the node of Ranvier. 2. Botany. The part of a stem between two of the nodes from which leaves arise.In quot. 1659 figurative, with reference to the height or growth of plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [noun] > internode joint1377 internode1659 internodium1664 articulation1765 merithal1849 1659 E. Williamson tr. J. Cleveland in J. Cleaveland Revived 116 Let this Caroline scale be an increase of your Honour many degrees, that when our King Charles, at the very top of it, shall touch Heaven for height, there may yet spring up new Charles's, by which his eternity distinguisht (as it were by Internodes) may never cease to flourish. 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 486 Canes, so big, that they can make as many Barrels of them, as they have internodes or Joynts. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Carnation Cutting half thro' a joint, and splitting the Internode upwards half way to the other Joint above it. 1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 211 In Caryophylleæ an internode below the receptacle is elongated, and bears on its summit the petals and stamens. 1863 C. Darwin in F. Darwin Life C. Darwin (1892) 314 The climbing of all plants yet examined is the simple result of the spontaneous circulatory movement of the upper internodes. 1961 Bot. Gaz. 123 112/1 The stem, with unelongated internodes, was short. 2009 W. G. Hopkins & N. P. A. Hüner Introd. Plant Physiol. (ed. 4) iv. 73/2 Typically, zinc-deficient plants have shortened internodes and smaller leaves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1657 |
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