单词 | monogastric |
释义 | monogastricadj. 1. Anatomy. Of a muscle: having a single ‘belly’ or fleshy part; (originally) spec. †designating the tensor tympani (obsolete). Cf. digastric adj. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > types of muscles > [adjective] orbicular1615 biceps1634 bicipital1646 trigastric1676 adducent1694 biventral1706 attollent1713 penniform1713 antagonistic1725 monogastric1749 adductory1752 sublime1800 pennated1836–9 intrinsic1839 pennate1877 sphincteric1883 sphinctrate1887 sphincterial1889 agonistic1905 sphinctered1963 1749 Philos. Trans. Abridged 1665–1700 (Royal Soc.) (ed. 5) 3 i. 47 The Monogastrick Muscle. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Monogastric, in anatomy, a name given by Vieussens, and some French writers, to one of the muscles of the ear, called by Cowper, the internus auris, and more properly by Albinus, the tensor tympani. 1904 Appleton's Med. Dict. Monogastric, having a single belly (said of muscles). 1997 Acta Anatomica 160 62 The model considers the muscle group as composed of two simple elementary building blocks: the monogastric contractile units of the FDP–FPL [= flexor digitorum profundus and flexor pollicis longus], and the digastric contractile elements of the lumbrical. 2. Zoology. Of an animal: having a single stomach or digestive cavity (figurative in first quot.). Cf. polygastric adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [adjective] wamedc1420 stomached?1529 stomachal1582 stomachical1601 gastric1656 stomachic1656 monogastric1814 ventricular1822 gasteral1828 perigastric1852 gastro-duodenal1854 gastrophrenic1854 opisthogastric1857 ventric1869 intragastric1900 oesophagogastric1954 nasogastric1958 tummied1975 1814 Edinb. Rev. Sept. 289 The desires of avarice have an end; but those of prodigality have none: The one is a monogastric bloodsucker [etc.]. 1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) (at cited word) Man is monogastric. Ruminating animals, on the contrary, are polygastric. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 547 Youatt states that..both with monogastric animals and ruminants, he has never known the drug to fail. 1965 A. K. Totton Synopsis Siphonophora 7 Haeckel made two suborders, the Monogastricae, for some forms which we now call eudoxids or monogastric phases, and the Polygastricae. 1976 Sci. Amer. Feb. 61/2 Monogastric animals, such as pigs, chickens and human beings, must rely mostly on more concentrated foods, such as cereals, fruits, nuts and certain vegetables. 1992 Jrnl. Nutrition 122 1855 Meat from such monogastric animals as swine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1749 |
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