单词 | autochthonous |
释义 | autochthonousadj. 1. a. Of or relating to autochthons (autochthon n. 1); indigenous. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [adjective] > original inhabitant originary1594 autochthonous1804 aboriginal1822 autochthonic1828 autochthonal1870 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > native (of country or place) > of one's native country > of indigenous origin native1555 staple1771 autochthonous1804 autochthonic1828 autochthonal1829 1804 Crit. Rev. Feb. 170 The flavour of the soil everywhere savours his [sc. Plautus'] idiomatic dialect, his domestic allusions, his autochthonous characters. 1860 J. Muir Orig. Sanskrit Texts II. ii. vii. 309 The Arians were not autochthonous in India, but came from some country to the north. 1946 Harper's Mag. Dec. 484/2 The cattle business has also supplied the West's autochthonous festival, the rodeo. 1963 D. Macdonald Against Amer. Grain 14 Folk art grew mainly from below; an autochthonous product shaped by the people to fit their own needs. 2004 H. Jacobson Making of Henry iii. 88 His autochthonous neighbours in the Pennines. b. Microbiology. Of a microorganism or microbial population: indigenous to a particular environment, habitat, or geographical area. ΚΠ 1927 S. A. Waksman Princ. Soil Microbiol. i. 10 The minute non-spore-forming rods and cocci are considered to form the autochtonous microflora of the soil. 1937 Ecology 18 453 (title) Direct microscopic evidence of an autochthonous bacterial flora in Great Salt Lake. 1962 T. Rosenbury Microorganisms Indigenous to Man i. 4 Winogradsky (1949) defined the autochthonous microflora of soil to include only those species that persisted in fallow soil for a period of years without exogenous organic matter. 2008 Internat. Jrnl. Food Microbiol. 126 227 The aim of this study was to develop an autochthonous starter culture that improves safety while preserving the typical sensory characteristics of traditional sausages. 2. Medicine. a. Of a pathological formation or process: remaining in or confined to its site of origin within the body. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > vascular disorders > [adjective] > thrombus or thrombosis autochthonous1859 thrombotic1859 thromboid1860 thrombosed1861 thrombosing1903 1859 Med. Times & Gaz. 30 Apr. 438/1 (caption) Smaller, varicose, lateral twigs..filled with autochthonous thrombi. 1888 J. L. W. Thudichum On Polypus in Nose (ed. 6) 30 Great care is necessary in such cases not to overlook or underestimate the effect of autochthonous disease of the tympanic cavity. 1916 Sci. Monthly Sept. 224 No chemically immunizing substance is formed against a spontaneous, autochthonous tumor. 1949 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 37 1149 This individual had a thrombophlebitis which began coincidentally with his chest trouble. Thus, there is a basis for both autochthonous and embolic types of thrombi. 2003 Cancer Cell 4 291 There are important differences between the mechanisms of angiogenesis in transplanted and autochthonous tumors. b. Of a (case of) disease: originating in the geographical area where the patient lives; locally acquired; not spread or acquired by the movement of people or animals. ΚΠ 1877 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Aug. 164/1 The fact that she spent thirty years of her life in a district near the West India Docks, and crowded by people in constant communication with the East and West Indies, make it impossible for us to look on her case as necessarily an indigenous and autochthonous one. 1929 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 44 190 Tabardillo is an autochthonous variety of typhus of the American continent. 1978 Nature 22 June 596/1 The first recorded autochthonous cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Americas were independently registered by Lindenberg and Carini and Paranhos, in patients from south Brazil, in 1909. 1998 New Scientist 3 Oct. 92/2 (advt.) This post will provide the molecular support for a patient-based epidemiological study to distinguish between autochthonous and allochthonous cases of TB. 3. Geology. Of a rock formation, sedimentary deposit, etc.: that has formed in its present position or from indigenous material. Also: of or relating to such a formation, deposit, etc. Contrasted with allochthonous adj. Cf. autochthon n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [adjective] > by origin in place residual1876 allochthonous1888 authigenic1888 authigenous1889 autochthonous1891 parautochthonous1927 1891 H. E. F. Garnsey tr. H. zu Solms-Laubach Fossil Bot. i. 19 Others..made the entire material of the coal-seams grow in loco, adopting therefore the theory of autochthonous origin. 1916 Bot. Gaz. 62 33 Autochthonous peat (that type of peat which represents the amassing of successive generations of plants in..constant, but stagnant..water). 1935 E. B. Bailey Tectonic Ess. iii. 34 In tectonics, an autochthonous fold is one that is made of untravelled indigenous rocks. 1989 Jrnl. Petrol. 30 108 Rocks of the Antalya Unit occur..in a narrow corridor between the Alanya Nappes and the relatively autochthonous Central Taurides. 2006 A. G. van der Valk Biol. Freshwater Wetlands v. 100 Wetlands..continue to collect or channel water even as they fill in with allochthonous or autochthonous sediment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1804 |
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