nodusn.

Brit.

/ˈnəʊdəs/, U.S.

/ˈnoʊdəs/

Inflections: Plural nodi.

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

Etymology: < classical Latin nōdus knot (see node n.). Compare Middle French, French nodus (c1370). Compare node n.

1. Pathology and Medicine. A node (node n. 2a); a nodule. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance

ampereOE

kernelc1000

wenc1000

knot?c1225

swella1250

bulchc1300

bunchc1325

bolninga1340

botcha1387

bouge1398

nodusa1400

oedemaa1400

wax-kernel14..

knobc1405

nodule?a1425

more?c1425

bunnyc1440

papa1450

knurc1460

waxing kernel?c1460

lump?a1500

waxen-kernel1500

bump1533

puff1538

tumour?1541

swelling1542

elevation1543

enlarging1562

knub1563

pimple1582

ganglion1583

button1584

phyma1585

emphysema?1587

flesh-pimple1587

oedem?a1591

burgeon1597

wartle1598

hurtle1599

pough1601

wart1603

extumescence1611

hulch1611

peppernel1613

affusion1615

extumescency1684

jog1715

knibloch1780

tumefaction1802

hunch1803

income1808

intumescence1822

gibber1853

tumescence1859

whetstone1886

tumidity1897

Osler's node1920

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 252 (MED) Nodus is a knotte, & þus comeþ in þe iȝe liddis.

?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 107^v (MED) Nodus, þat is to seie, a knotte, is heled in þis maner: þou schalt kitte þe skinne euen olengþe apon þe knotte & drawe him oute with alle his follikel.

1650 J. French tr. G. Dorn Chymicall Dict. (at cited word), in tr. M. Sędziwóg New Light of Alchymie Nodi are hard tumours of the joints.

1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4062 Not long after his landing, he found a certain Nodus or hard lump in the very place whence this stone was cut.

1745 Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 298 The Nutriment of the Bones..had been vitiated, as appeared by the gummatous Tumours, and Nodus's on the Bones.

1997 Chest 111 1121 A 50-year-old man presented with primary lung cancer with bone lesions and calcifying liver nodi.

†2. Mathematics. The base (base n.¹ 20) of a numerical system. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > scale > base of scale

nodus1677

radix1754

base1772

1677 J. Locke 28 Aug. in Ld. King Life & Lett. (Bohn) 73 Monsieur Bernier told me that the heathens of Hindoostan pretend to great antiquity,..that their nodus in their numbers is ten, as ours, and their circuit of days seven.

†3. The centre of a circular mirror used in a form of sundial; a point on the gnomon of a sundial that corresponds to the point on the shadow indicating the time of day, the altitude of the sun, etc.; = node n. 5. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > parts of

pinOE

gnomon1546

style1577

cock1585

hour-line1593

substyle1593

index1594

noon-line1596

incliner1638

substylara1652

substylar linea1652

staff1669

nodus1678

node1704

stylus1796

noon-mark1842

sun line1877

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Dyalling 39 The point in the middle of this Glass we will mark A, and for distinction sake call it Nodus. Through this Nodus you must draw a Meridian Line.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Dyalling 40 Fasten a string just on the Nodus.

1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 346 When the Sun Shines upon the Glass at Nodus, its Beames shall reflect upon the Hour of the Day.

†4. = nodule n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > small bag containing medicine

nodulus1583

nodule1593

nodus1688

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 424/2 The Nodus, or Nodulus, is a Bag of Ingradients..put into Beer, Ale, or Wine, the tincture whereof the Patient is to drink.

5. A knotty point, a difficulty, a complication. Cf. node n. 3. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult problem

knotc1000

a bone to pick (also gnaw)c1450

dark, hard sentence1535

nut1540

Gordian knot1579

nodus1728

teaser1759

stumper1807

Chinese puzzlec1815

facer1828

sticker1849

grueller1856

stumbler1863

twister1879

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Intrigue In this sense Intrigue is used to signify the Nodus, or Plot of a Play or Romance.

1763 H. Blair Crit. Diss. Poems of Ossian 25 We find..a Nodus, or intrigue in the Poem.

1808 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 369 Beleaguer'd and beset by what they call the nodus, or difficulty of his situation.

1828 T. Carlyle Goethe's Helena in Foreign Rev. 1 444 The whole nodus may be more of a logical cobweb, than any actual material perplexity.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. v. li. 130 Neither the Parliamentary Candidate Society nor any other power..seeing a worthy nodus for interference.

1931 Mind 40 162 We conclude, of course, that in self-transcendence the self is at once ‘more than’ and the ‘same’. But here we strike the nodus of Bosanquet's philosophy.

6. Botany. = node n. 7. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [noun] > joint or node

joint?1523

knuckle1626

internodium1653

genicle1657

articulation1658

geniculationa1776

nodus1832

node1835

1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. L Knot, Nodus. A protuberant joint in the stem of some plants, particularly in corn and grasses.]

1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 46 At the nodi,..vessels are sent off horizontally into the leaf.

1842 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 9 84 The nodi of Viscum album.

1866 S. E. Todd Bridgeman's Amer. Gardener's Assistant (rev. ed.) iii. 132 The points where the leaves are borne are called Nodi.

1990 Plant Cell Rep. 9 276 Epicotyl segments and nodus explants from etiolated seedlings of Pisum sativum.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nodus
释义	nodusn. Brit. /ˈnəʊdəs/, U.S. /ˈnoʊdəs/ Inflections: Plural nodi. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nōdus. Etymology: < classical Latin nōdus knot (see node n.). Compare Middle French, French nodus (c1370). Compare node n. 1. Pathology and Medicine. A node (node n. 2a); a nodule. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance ampereOE kernelc1000 wenc1000 knot?c1225 swella1250 bulchc1300 bunchc1325 bolninga1340 botcha1387 bouge1398 nodusa1400 oedemaa1400 wax-kernel14.. knobc1405 nodule?a1425 more?c1425 bunnyc1440 papa1450 knurc1460 waxing kernel?c1460 lump?a1500 waxen-kernel1500 bump1533 puff1538 tumour?1541 swelling1542 elevation1543 enlarging1562 knub1563 pimple1582 ganglion1583 button1584 phyma1585 emphysema?1587 flesh-pimple1587 oedem?a1591 burgeon1597 wartle1598 hurtle1599 pough1601 wart1603 extumescence1611 hulch1611 peppernel1613 affusion1615 extumescency1684 jog1715 knibloch1780 tumefaction1802 hunch1803 income1808 intumescence1822 gibber1853 tumescence1859 whetstone1886 tumidity1897 Osler's node1920 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 252 (MED) Nodus is a knotte, & þus comeþ in þe iȝe liddis. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 107^v (MED) Nodus, þat is to seie, a knotte, is heled in þis maner: þou schalt kitte þe skinne euen olengþe apon þe knotte & drawe him oute with alle his follikel. 1650 J. French tr. G. Dorn Chymicall Dict. (at cited word), in tr. M. Sędziwóg New Light of Alchymie Nodi are hard tumours of the joints. 1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4062 Not long after his landing, he found a certain Nodus or hard lump in the very place whence this stone was cut. 1745 Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 298 The Nutriment of the Bones..had been vitiated, as appeared by the gummatous Tumours, and Nodus's on the Bones. 1997 Chest 111 1121 A 50-year-old man presented with primary lung cancer with bone lesions and calcifying liver nodi. †2. Mathematics. The base (base n.¹ 20) of a numerical system. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > scale > base of scale nodus1677 radix1754 base1772 1677 J. Locke 28 Aug. in Ld. King Life & Lett. (Bohn) 73 Monsieur Bernier told me that the heathens of Hindoostan pretend to great antiquity,..that their nodus in their numbers is ten, as ours, and their circuit of days seven. †3. The centre of a circular mirror used in a form of sundial; a point on the gnomon of a sundial that corresponds to the point on the shadow indicating the time of day, the altitude of the sun, etc.; = node n. 5. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > parts of pinOE gnomon1546 style1577 cock1585 hour-line1593 substyle1593 index1594 noon-line1596 incliner1638 substylara1652 substylar linea1652 staff1669 nodus1678 node1704 stylus1796 noon-mark1842 sun line1877 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Dyalling 39 The point in the middle of this Glass we will mark A, and for distinction sake call it Nodus. Through this Nodus you must draw a Meridian Line. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Dyalling 40 Fasten a string just on the Nodus. 1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 346 When the Sun Shines upon the Glass at Nodus, its Beames shall reflect upon the Hour of the Day. †4. = nodule n. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > small bag containing medicine nodulus1583 nodule1593 nodus1688 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 424/2 The Nodus, or Nodulus, is a Bag of Ingradients..put into Beer, Ale, or Wine, the tincture whereof the Patient is to drink. 5. A knotty point, a difficulty, a complication. Cf. node n. 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult problem knotc1000 a bone to pick (also gnaw)c1450 dark, hard sentence1535 nut1540 Gordian knot1579 nodus1728 teaser1759 stumper1807 Chinese puzzlec1815 facer1828 sticker1849 grueller1856 stumbler1863 twister1879 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Intrigue In this sense Intrigue is used to signify the Nodus, or Plot of a Play or Romance. 1763 H. Blair Crit. Diss. Poems of Ossian 25 We find..a Nodus, or intrigue in the Poem. 1808 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 369 Beleaguer'd and beset by what they call the nodus, or difficulty of his situation. 1828 T. Carlyle Goethe's Helena in Foreign Rev. 1 444 The whole nodus may be more of a logical cobweb, than any actual material perplexity. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. v. li. 130 Neither the Parliamentary Candidate Society nor any other power..seeing a worthy nodus for interference. 1931 Mind 40 162 We conclude, of course, that in self-transcendence the self is at once ‘more than’ and the ‘same’. But here we strike the nodus of Bosanquet's philosophy. 6. Botany. = node n. 7. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [noun] > joint or node joint?1523 knuckle1626 internodium1653 genicle1657 articulation1658 geniculationa1776 nodus1832 node1835 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. L Knot, Nodus. A protuberant joint in the stem of some plants, particularly in corn and grasses.] 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 46 At the nodi,..vessels are sent off horizontally into the leaf. 1842 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 9 84 The nodi of Viscum album. 1866 S. E. Todd Bridgeman's Amer. Gardener's Assistant (rev. ed.) iii. 132 The points where the leaves are borne are called Nodi. 1990 Plant Cell Rep. 9 276 Epicotyl segments and nodus explants from etiolated seedlings of Pisum sativum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400
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