单词 | papilla |
释义 | papillan. 1. Anatomy and Zoology. a. A small nipple-like protuberance on or in a part or organ of the body, as the kidney, skin, tongue, etc. Frequently with distinguishing word.circumvallate, dermal, lachrymal, optic, renal papilla, etc.: see the first element.papilla of Vater: see Vater n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [noun] > rounded projection boss1386 ball1530 tubercle1556 tubercule1596 tuberculum1597 tuberosity1611 caruncle1615 papilla1671 bulb1716 tuber1741 mammula1815 mamilla1818 tuberculation1820 verruca1822 monticule1874 miliary1880 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2277 The sides of the pipe are lined with a glandulous flesh, which if you press, you shall see start, out of many little holes or papillæ into the cavity of the pipe, a certain glutinous liquor. 1683 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 13 144 Represents the Protuberance or Papilla about the middle of the Edges; and in it the Orifice which I take for the Mouth of this Worm. 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 68 This Valve..he compared to the Papillæ in the Kidneys, Musculous and Fleshy. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. vi. 144 Mr. Cowper hath..given us very elegant Cuts both of the Skin, and the Papillae. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 43 The nervous Papillae which are the immediate Organ in the Senses of Feeling, Taste, and Smell. 1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 279 On the tongues of the feline tribe the papillæ have true horny sheaths. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 898/1 The deeper end of the follicle..has in it a papilla, the hair papilla. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 551 [In Holothurioidea] The tube feet are either partially or completely retractile, and furnished with a terminal disc..or they are conical papillæ without discs. 1906 Practitioner Nov. 692 Complete removal..of the hair-shaft, together with the root-sheath or papilla. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses iii. 66 Frequently the rectal sac contains special glands (rectal glands) in the form of ridges or papillae, but their function does not seem to be well established. 1969 R. F. Chapman Insects iii. 44 In many Coleoptera these crypts are visible as small papillae on the outside of the midgut. 1992 N.Y. Times 4 Aug. c8/4 The taste buds, in turn, are grouped in pink mushroom-shaped bumps called papillae, which can be seen by the naked eye on the surface of the tongue. 2002 Sci. Amer. July 40/1 The surface of each of the 22 appendages that ring the nostrils [of the star-nosed mole] is composed of an aggregation of the microscopic protuberances, or papillae, called Eimer's organs. b. A nipple; = mamilla n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > udder > teat titOE mammaOE teat?a1200 udder1582 drain1587 papilla1684 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 53v Þe tete, þe heed of þe pappe..hatte pappilla in latyn. a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 47v Papilla, an hed of a pappe.] 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 219 Papilla is a red Excrescency in the middle of the Breast. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The lacteal Tubes, coming from the several Parts of the Breasts, terminate in the Papillæ. 1830 Zool. Jrnl. (1835) 5 239 According to the testimony of the person who preserved the mother with this little one for me, the latter by no means passes the whole of its time with the lacteal papilla in its mouth. 1925 Proc. Royal Soc. 1924–5 B. 97 388 The lips are grown together and are attached to a soft papilla or ‘teat’ protruding, so far as I can see, from the belly of the mother on this side only. 1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) viii. 1435/1 The mammary papilla or nipple is a cylindrical or conical projection from just below the centre of the anterior surface of the breast. 1986 Amer. Jrnl. Vet. Res. 47 283 Relative blood flow to tissues of the distal part of the teat (mammary papilla) in 5 lactating dairy cows was determined. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > spot of > pimple pimplea1398 plouk?c1425 whealc1440 knoll1499 red spota1500 knop1558 blob1597 bumb1598 pumple1601 burl1607 pimple spot1658 tiler1660 pipjenny1670 papula1694 grub1731 papilla1793 papule1828 maculopapule1900 hickey1934 zit1965 1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. vii. 96 Papillæ and pustules, somewhat resembling the small-pox. 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Papilla..Also, a diminutive of Papula. 2. Botany. A small rounded or conical projection on the surface of a plant part. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > protuberance or lump > [noun] node1391 knot1398 burble1555 tubercle1597 hump1709 pustule1756 wart1793 papula1795 nodule1796 papule1821 papilla1832 grain1836 wartlet1856 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 44 The presence of papillæ upon the leaves of the ice plant gives rise to the peculiar crystalline nature of its surface. 1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Papillæ..in Botany, the minute puncta upon the surface of a leaf; the vesicles on leaves of twigs [etc.]. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 37 Pepperwort..papillæ scale~like when dry. 1885 G. L. Goodale in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) II. i. iii. 155 In the earliest stage of its development the leaf is a mere papilla consisting of nascent cortex..and nascent epidermis. 1962 A. R. Clapham et al. Flora Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 257 S[pergula] arvensis... Var. arvensis. Seed brownish-black, covered with pale club-shaped deciduous papillae; wing narrow or O. 1983 S. Plant tr. M. Moser Keys to Agarics & Boleti 23 Papilla,—sharp, small, pointed or slightly pimple-like elevation of cap surface. 2002 Horticulture July 76/2 They sport a dusting of dark spots and rows of strange, fleshy papillae that bring to mind a Jacques Cousteau special. 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