单词 | mongoloid |
释义 | Mongoloidadj.n. A. adj. 1. Resembling or having some of the characteristic physical features of Mongolians; spec. designating or relating to the division of humankind including the indigenous peoples of eastern Asia, South-East Asia, and the Arctic region of North America, who are characterized by dark eyes with an epicanthic fold, pale ivory to dark skin, straight dark hair, and little facial and bodily hair. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Mongol > [adjective] yellow?1562 Mongol1763 Mongolized1814 Mongolic1815 Mongolian1828 Mongoloid1855 1855 Encycl. Brit. IX. 346/2 In India we have a physiognomy referable to two types, one Persian rather than Mongol, the other Mongoloid. 1868 T. H. Huxley in Trans. Internat. Congr. Prehistoric Archæol. (1869) 93 In the Mongoloid race the complexion ranges from brownish-yellow to olive. 1878 J. C. Southall Epoch of Mammoth vii. 112 From an examination of some of the human skulls from this station, Dr. Pruner Bey referred them to a Mongoloid race. 1934 H. Webster & E. B. Westley World Civilization ii. 23 The Malays, Polynesians, and American Indians are included among Mongoloid peoples. 1967 E. A. Hoebel in S. B. Rapport & H. Wright Anthropol. 70 The most outstanding Mongoloid physical trait is the slant eye, more elegantly known to anthropologists as the internal epicanthic fold. 1978 Nature 16 Feb. 595/1 In African and Mongoloid races the incidence can be less than half that in south-east England. 1988 Oxf. Illustr. Encycl. III. 27/2 The historian Priscus has left a vivid description of the squat and wily Mongoloid conquerer [sc. Attila]. 2009 R. W. Welch Roots of Cataclysm ii. 22 Native Americans are not, and never have been typical of what anthropologists classify as the Mongoloid or East Asian race. 2. Also mongoloid. Affected with or characteristic of Down's syndrome.The word was used in this sense following the similar use of Mongolian (see Mongolian adj. 3), but is now considered to be misleading and offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [adjective] > type of idiot born1791 cretinous1793 cretinoid1862 Mongolian1866 Mongol1876 amaurotic1896 Mongoloid1899 moronic1910 infantilistic1930 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 236 Dr. A. E. Garrod mentions six cases of mongoloid idiots. 1949 S. S. Sarason Psychol. Probl. Mental Deficiency viii. 210 Ages of the mother and father at the birth of the Mongoloid child are relatively advanced. 1961 Lancet 13 May 1028/2 (heading) 21-Trisomy/normal mosaicism in an intelligent child with some mongoloid characters. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Oct. 1269/5 The bereaved mother peopling her flat with ‘friends’ via spiritualist contact with a mongoloid daughter. 1991 A. Quindlen Object Lessons vi. 54 Paul Fogerty and his mongoloid brother, Leonard, had just finished digging and were standing, sweating, leaning on shovels. 2006 R. E. Stevenson in R. E. Stevenson & J. G. Hall Human Malformations (ed. 2) i. 12/2 A term in common use in the middle of this century, mongolism, or mongoloid idiot,..is discouraged in favour of trisomy 21 syndrome or Down syndrome. B. n. 1. A person of Mongoloid physical type. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Mongol > [noun] Mogul1598 Mongol1613 Mogulian1672 yellow1775 Mongolian1823 yellowskin1847 Mongoloid1868 xanthoderm1924 1868 T. H. Huxley in Trans. Internat. Congr. Prehistoric Archæol. (1869) 95 The Xanthochroi inhabit a far smaller area of the earth's surface than the Mongoloids. 1871 Appletons' Jrnl. 26 Aug. 248 In these regions are found, more or less mixed with Xanthochrooi and Mongoloids.., the Melanochoic or dark-skinned whites. 1964 R. T. Anderson in M. F. A. Montagu Concept of Race 62 The second [interpretation] holds that the Lapps represent a remnant of an ur-race that was the ancestor of both modern Mongoloids and modern Caucasoids. 1971 National Geographic Mar. 323/1 Like the majorities, they are virtually all Mongoloids, and often hard to tell apart. 1987 Amer. Jrnl. Human Genetics 28 925 We have compared 232 patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy belonging to three racial groups: caucasoids, negroids, and mongoloids. 1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) x. i. 397/1 Such distinctions are most marked between Inuit or inner Asiatic Mongoloids such as Buriats..on one hand, and Africans and Australo-Melanesians on the other. 2. Also mongoloid. A person affected with Down's syndrome.Now generally regarded as offensive. See also A. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun] > type of > person idiot born1558 cretin1775 cretinist1839 Mongol1896 moron1910 pointy-head1946 Mongoloid1949 1949 Amer. Jrnl. Mental Deficiency 54 204 (heading) Case report: reproduction in a mongoloid. 1962 Amer. Jrnl. Human Genetics 14 125 Trisomy of a short acrocentric chromosome in the human complement has come to be recognized as such a common etiologic factor in mongolism..that the discovery of a forty-seven chromosome mongoloid is no longer worthy of note. 1974 E. Tidyman Dummy vi. 87 Its..inmates..were mongoloids and schizoids, the emotionally disturbed and the mentally incompetent. 1998 B. Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible (1999) i. 56 A principal less observant would have placed Leah in Gifted, and Adah in Special Ed with the mongoloids. Compounds Mongoloid eye n. = Mongolian eye n. at Mongolian adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1912 Current Anthropol. Lit. Apr.–June 167/1 These American Indian children ‘possess a more or less Mongoloid eye, which is not present in the adults (their relations)’. 1931 E. A. Hooton Up from Ape v. 420 The Mongoloid eye characteristically fills the orbit and protrudes slightly. 1988 Toronto Star 16 Jan. (Travel section) h28 With their olive skin and Mongoloid eyes, the inhabitants [of San Miguel, Mexico] reflect their Maya ancestry. 2008 T. S. Hamerow Why we Watched iv. 97 The dark mongoloid eye, the curled semitic lip. Mongoloid fold n. = Mongolian fold n. at Mongolian adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1913 Philippine Jrnl. Sci. 8 360 The Mongoloid fold at the inner canthus of the eye..is not a Negrito characteristic. 1931 E. A. Hooton Up from Ape v. 421 A common modification..is the inner or internal epicanthic fold, often referred to as the ‘Mongoloid fold’. 1960 J. Comas Man. Physical Anthropol. v. 271 Generally, the eyelid opening is horizontal, but in many groups of Asia and America the so-called Mongoloid fold is found. 2004 M. Sleeboom Acad. Nations China & Japan 55 The results of this change [in response to extreme cold] include the flattened face, a stocky build, the flat eyelid with Mongoloid fold and hairlessness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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