单词 | masticatory |
释义 | masticatoryn.adj. Chiefly Medicine, Anatomy, and Zoology. A. n. A medicinal preparation intended for chewing (now rare). Later also: any of various substances, usually of vegetable origin, which are held in the mouth and chewed for pleasure.Such substances often contain mild stimulants. Among the most widely used are areca (betel) nuts in South Asia, coca leaves in South America, and chicle (sapodilla gum) in Mexico, which also forms the basis for chewing gum. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > other miscellaneous medicines > [noun] > medicines to be chewed masticatorium?1550 masticatory1583 masticator1596 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxv. 33 The head must be purged with Masticatories, gargarizes, and such lyke medicines. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iv. ii. iii. 459 Or Apophlegmatismes, masticatories, to be held and chewed in the mouth. a1626 F. Bacon Med. Rem. in Wks. (1827) VII. 235 To remember masticatories for the mouth. 1710 W. Salmon Botanologia I. xv. 22/2 The dryed Root[of Angelica]. Used as a Masticatory, it it attracts cold and moist humors out of the Head and Brain. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ix. 212 Some gentle Masticatory (such as Mastick, Pellitory, Tobacco, or the like). 1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 178 It is used as a masticatory in paralysis of parts about the mouth. 1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal (1967) II. 622/1 The British Pharmacopœia directs that it [sc. pellitory root] be used as a masticatory. 1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 50/2 Cocoa had come into use, mixed—in the worldwide way of masticatories—with a touch of lime or ashes to release the narcotic. 1975 Nature 6 Feb. p. ii Flavouring plants. Beverage plants. Fumitories and masticatories. Fermentative micro-organisms. 1992 J. F. Morton in R. W. Hemingway & P. E. Laks Plant Polyphenols 739 Certain tannin-rich beverages, masticatories, and folk remedies, long utilized in African, Asiatic, Pacific, and Latin American countries, are now appearing in North American sundry shops and grocery stores. B. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or concerned with mastication. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > relating to chewing masticatory1611 manducatory1814 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with rubber or plastic > [adjective] > pulping rubber masticatory1862 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Masticatoire, masticatorie, chewing, champing. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. xv. 64 The Molar, Masticatory and Canine Teeth. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 262 The masticatory and digestive organs of carnivorous and granivorous animals. 1862 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 10 324/2 The Para rubber..if not injured by masticatory processes in the manufacture,..will [etc.]. 1953 H. Mellanby Animal Life in Fresh Water (ed. 5) xiii. 258 Near the front end of the gut is a special masticatory organ (mastax) consisting of one pair of large toothed jaws. 1990 Jrnl. Zool. 220 312 Bats..are adapted to almost every trophic niche, and this is reflected in the diversity of their masticatory apparatus. 2010 W. Xu & J. E. Bronland Mastication Robots i. 5 The masticatory system is driven by a complex assembly of contracting muscle groups working as an ensemble. 2. Anatomy, Zoology, and Medicine. Designating a nerve supplying the muscles of mastication. Also: of, relating to, or affecting the muscles of mastication. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [adjective] motive?a1425 recurrent1578 motory1683 refluent1741 abducent1752 motorial1768 internuncial1821 motor1823 centrifugal1828 unfilamentous1828 masticatory1834 aesthesodic1859 incito-motor1865 vaso-motor1865 kinesodic1874 centripetal1877 vaso-motorial1877 incito-motory1884 augmentor1885 pilomotor1891 postfixed1892 postganglionic1892 precellular1892 prefixed1892 preganglionic1892 plurisegmental1898 nocifensor1936 1834 A. Walker Nervous Syst. vii. 678 The masticatory nerve belongs also to the vital system; and it is a motive and voluntary nerve. 1853 E. Sieveking tr. M. H. Romberg Man. Nerv. Dis. II. 289 This serves to distinguish masticatory from histrionic paralysis. 1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XIV. 358 The so-called masticatory facial spasm. 1980 Ann. Neurol. 7 585 (title) Masticatory spasm in facial hemiatrophy. 1994 Vet. Clinics N. Amer., Small Animal Pract. 24 703 The immunopathogenic mechanisms responsible for..masticatory myopathy..are discussed. 2015 L. Campoy et al. in K. A. Grimm et al. Lumb & Jones's Vet. Anesthesia & Analgesia (ed. 5) xlv. 836/1 The masticatory nerve provides motor innervation to the rostral belly of the digastricus muscle. Compounds masticatory foot n. Zoology rare = maxilliped n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > mouth-like appendage maxilla1798 foot-jaw1828 maxilliped1846 masticatory foot1852 mouth organ1863 gnathite1870 jaw-foot1871 gnathobase1881 jaw-process1881 malipede1883 1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. II ii. 1035 This pair of legs is often called a pair of maxilla-feet, jaw-feet, or masticatory feet. 1960 I. G. Sohn Revision some Paleozoic Ostracode Genera (U.S. Geol. Surv.) 14 (caption) 7.b, external masticatory feet; e, with the branchial plates. masticatory muscle n. any of the group of muscles which produce the movements of the lower jaw involved in chewing, comprising the masseters, temporals, and pterygoids. ΚΠ 1689 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies i. 477/2 The Muscles of the lower Jaw..causing a strong Motion in the chewing of Food, are called Masticatory, Molary or Grinders, and Mansory or Eaters; of which there are reckoned five Pair. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 543/2 The masticatory muscles..present great uniformity of arrangement throughout all the Vertebral orders. 1948 A. Brodal Neurol. Anat. vii. 247 The mesencephalic nucleus is concerned in proprioception from the masticatory muscles. 1990 Jrnl. Zool. 220 326 It was shown that in mammalian masticatory muscles maximum tension is developed with the mouth open. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1583 |
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