单词 | noxa |
释义 | noxan. Medicine. Now rare. A substance, agent, condition, process, or influence that is harmful to the body. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > agent or medium infectiona1398 leavena1400 virusa1400 contagion1603 taint1623 fomes1800 conductor1807 infectant1832 zymin1842 contagium1870 noxa1872 pathogen1880 zyme1882 auto-infectant1887 insult1903 1872 B. Baehr Sci. Therapeutics 198 It is an established fact that whooping-cough is the result of a noxa diffused through the atmosphere. 1894 G. M. Gould Illustr. Dict. Med. 877/2 Noxa, an injurious principle; especially a pathogeneic microörganism, or other materies morbi. 1939 Sci. Monthly Oct. 308/2 This substance he called noxa, for want of a better name, and fed it to the rats, and a considerable percentage of them developed goiter. 1960 D. C. Blood & J. A. Henderson Vet. Med. I. iii. 44 The embryo..does not react to noxa in the same way as the fœtus since no inflammation or leucocytosis develops. 1971 Nature 2 July 18/2 Aspirin does not lessen pain in skin, elicited by noxious substances, but it does lessen pain in other sites, when elicited by similar noxae. 2001 Canad. Jrnl. Gastroenterol. 15 187 While a single liver tissue injury can be followed by an almost complete restitution ad integrum, the persistence of the original damaging noxa results in tissue damage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1872 |
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