marsupiumn.
/mɑːˈs(j)uːpɪəm/, U.S. /mɑrˈsupiəm/ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun] > having specific structure
button1600
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marsupiuma1637
funnel1712
a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady iii. v, in Wks. (1640) III It is a pursinesse, a kind of stoppage,..That you are troubled with: some ligatures I'th neck of your Vesica, or Marsupium, are so close knit, that you cannot evaporate, And therefore you must use relaxatives.
1678 J. Browne Compl. Disc. Wounds 272 Being as the Hearts Marsupium, it being wounded, it loseth its store of Serum.
1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies sig. Oo iv That part of the Marsupialis, call'd the Marsupium.
1826 J. Bell & C. Bell Anat. & Physiol. Human Body (ed. 6) III. 274 My reader must now find his way into the marsupium, or purse of the omentum.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Marsupium, applied to the large cavity of the peritonæum...also to the scrotum.
1890 Cent. Dict. Marsupium, in anat., the alar ligament.
2. Zoology.
a. The pouch present in most female marsupials, consisting of folds of abdominal skin that cover the mammae and protect the immature young.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > parts of
marsupium1698
prepubis1931
1698 E. Tyson Carigueya, seu Marsupiale Americanum 11 Herein all agree, that the use of this Bag, Pouch, or Marsupium, is for the Preservation of the Young Ones, and securing them upon any Occasion of Danger.
1825 Zool. Jrnl. 1 406 The difference..is solely in the fœtal domicile; we call it matrix in the one, and pouch, or marsupium in the others.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 450 Their young..attach themselves by the mouth to the teats, which are situated in the marsupium, or pouch, of the mother.
1891 W. H. Flower & R. Lydekker Introd. Study Mammals 160 All the species have a marsupium or pouch formed by a fold of the skin of the abdomen.
1948 O. Breland Animal Life & Lore i. 32 The females have a pouch on the undersurface of the body called the marsupium.
1991 R. M. Nowak Walker's Mammals of World (ed. 5) 11/1 Most female marsupials possess an abdominal pouch, referred to as a marsupium, within which the young are carried.
b. A pouch-like receptacle for eggs or immature young in certain other (chiefly invertebrate) animals, esp. peracarid crustaceans; a brood pouch.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > pouch
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1843 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Invertebr. Animals 289 The development of the ovum takes place in this temporary marsupium.
1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 245 In Cyclas the inner gills form the marsupium, and only from 10 to 20 of the fry are found in them at one time.
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 214 The Isopoda possess a marsupium under the thorax, formed of the lamellate appendages of the basal joints of the thoracic limbs.
1953 R. C. Moore Treat. Invertebr. Zool. G. 5 The ova [of bryozoans] may be developed in a special receptacle (marsupium).
1961 H. Schöne in T. H. Waterman Physiol. Crustacea II. xiii. 486 Female peracaridans carry eggs and young in a marsupium between their legs.
1994 E. E. Ruppert & R. D. Barnes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 6) xiv. 747/2 The marsupium of a wood louse is kept filled with fluid, so development of the young is essentially aquatic.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > eye > part of
haw?1523
periophthalmium1691
pecten1713
marsupium1795
Harderian gland1822
sclerotal1854
winker1884
1795 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 16 In the eyes of birds there is a substance which is peculiar to that class of animals, called the marsupium.
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxix. §680. 611 A vascular organ, called the marsupium, or pecten, which is lodged in the posterior part of the vitreous humour.
1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Marsupium, the ocular structure called Pecten when, as in the Ostrich, it is pouch-like.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for applying medicaments > [noun] > other applicators
seton-needle1672
burras-pipe1676
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marsupium1842
wafer-paper1860
insufflator1872
douchebag1883
tampon-screwa1884
irrigator1887
ointment carrier1897
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Marsupion,..Marsupium, a sac or bag, with which any part is fomented.
1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Marsupium, a bag for the fomenting of a part.
5. Botany. A sac-like outgrowth of the stem which, in certain foliose liverworts, envelops and protects the archegonia and the developing sporophyte.
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1910 F. Cavers in New Phytologist 9 279 The perianth may be absent altogether—a condition especially found in species having a fruit-sac or marsupium.
1938 G. M. Smith Cryptogamic Bot. II. ii. 66 The most striking marsupia among the Acrogynae are found in those genera in which the marsupium comes to lie at right angles to the long axis of the gametophyte or becomes bent back on the stem apex.
1969 F. E. Round Introd. Lower Plants viii. 107 The archegonia are..found buried in the base of this structure, which is termed the marsupium or perigynium.
1981 E. V. Watson Brit. Mosses & Liverworts (ed. 3) 444 Throughout the genus Calypogeia..there is no perianth, but instead there is a cylindrical bulb-like marsupium (cf. Saccogyna, Trichocolea).
1993 Jrnl. Bryol. 17 541 Young sporophytes of Calypogeia and Goebelobryum overwinter in marsupia that die in the autumn.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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