mentagran.

Brit.

/mɛnˈtaɡrə/, U.S.

/mɛnˈtæɡrə/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mentagra.

Etymology: < classical Latin mentagra an eruptive disease occurring on the chin (only attested in Pliny) < mentum chin (see mentum n.) + ancient Greek ἄγρα a catching, after classical Latin podagra podagra n. and chīragra (see chiragrical adj.). Compare Middle French, French mentagre (1529).

Medicine. Now historical.

Any of various skin diseases affecting the chin; spec. = sycosis n. 2.

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1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. f. 33 What difference is betwixt Mentagra and Chameleontiasis it is easely conceyued, the one hauing Causam occultam..and the other manifestam.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. ii. 205 Mentagra a Latine word vsed of Plynie..to haue altogeather meant another thing from impetigo.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 434 The Mentagra, or Impetigo, or dry Scab of the Chin, a Disease that troubled the Romans in Plinies time.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mentagra, a wild Tetter, or Scab, like a Ring-worm.

1802 W. Turton Med. Gloss. (ed. 2) Mentagra, the tetter or ring~worm under the chin.

1829 Bateman's Pract. Synopsis Cutaneous Dis. (ed. 7) 404 Sycosis menti..Mentagra (Plenck).

1842 T. H. Burgess tr. P. L. A. Cazenave & H. E. Schedel Man. Dis. Skin 160 Mentagra is an essentially pustular affection.

1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 690 Another term, mentagra,..was applied by Pliny..to a disease of the skin which has been assumed to be identical with what we now call sycosis.

1937 Q. Rev. Biol. 12 489/2 Holcomb notes that [the] description of syphilis as given by Ruiz Diaz is not consistent with the disease as known now, nor was that writer certain whether it was a new disease, or Pliny's Mentagra.]

1988 Current Anthropol. 29 706/2 Hudson..concludes that the lesions and contagious nature of mentagra were venereal.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mentagra
释义	mentagran. Brit. /mɛnˈtaɡrə/, U.S. /mɛnˈtæɡrə/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mentagra. Etymology: < classical Latin mentagra an eruptive disease occurring on the chin (only attested in Pliny) < mentum chin (see mentum n.) + ancient Greek ἄγρα a catching, after classical Latin podagra podagra n. and chīragra (see chiragrical adj.). Compare Middle French, French mentagre (1529). Medicine. Now historical. Any of various skin diseases affecting the chin; spec. = sycosis n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > sycosis mentagra1563 sycosis1822 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > disorders of hair > [noun] > disease of hair-follicles mentagra1563 sycosis1822 mentigo1848 trichatrophia1890 trichocryptosis1890 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. f. 33 What difference is betwixt Mentagra and Chameleontiasis it is easely conceyued, the one hauing Causam occultam..and the other manifestam. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. ii. 205 Mentagra a Latine word vsed of Plynie..to haue altogeather meant another thing from impetigo. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 434 The Mentagra, or Impetigo, or dry Scab of the Chin, a Disease that troubled the Romans in Plinies time. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mentagra, a wild Tetter, or Scab, like a Ring-worm. 1802 W. Turton Med. Gloss. (ed. 2) Mentagra, the tetter or ring~worm under the chin. 1829 Bateman's Pract. Synopsis Cutaneous Dis. (ed. 7) 404 Sycosis menti..Mentagra (Plenck). 1842 T. H. Burgess tr. P. L. A. Cazenave & H. E. Schedel Man. Dis. Skin 160 Mentagra is an essentially pustular affection. 1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 690 Another term, mentagra,..was applied by Pliny..to a disease of the skin which has been assumed to be identical with what we now call sycosis. 1937 Q. Rev. Biol. 12 489/2 Holcomb notes that [the] description of syphilis as given by Ruiz Diaz is not consistent with the disease as known now, nor was that writer certain whether it was a new disease, or Pliny's Mentagra.] 1988 Current Anthropol. 29 706/2 Hudson..concludes that the lesions and contagious nature of mentagra were venereal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1563
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