pauci-comb. form

Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pauci-.

Etymology: < classical Latin pauci-, combining form (in e.g. pauciloquium pauciloquy n.) of paucus few < the same Indo-European base as few adj., pron., and n.Found in a small number of formations illustrated below.

Chiefly Zoology and Botany.

Forming chiefly adjectives with the sense ‘few, little’.

pauciarthritis n.

Brit.

/ˌpɔːsɪɑːˈθrʌɪtᵻs/

U.S.

/ˌpɔsiɑrˈθraɪdᵻs/

/ˌpɑsiɑrˈθraɪdᵻs/

Medicine arthritis affecting only a few joints.

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1940 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 7 Dec. 2023/2 In all, forty-three instances of arthritis of the knee and thirty-five of pauciarthritis were studied.

1994 Ann. Rheumatic Dis. 53 759 The mode of presentation was monoarthritis on 10 patients.., pauciarthritis in 30..and polyarthritis in 37.

pauciarticular adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɔːsɪɑːˈtɪkjᵿlə/

U.S.

/ˌpɔsiɑrˈtɪkjələr/

/ˌpɑsiɑrˈtɪkjələr/

Medicine (of arthritis) affecting only a few joints.

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1940 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 7 Dec. 2023/2 This report concerns a study of children with mono-articular arthritis involving the knee, and pauciarticular..arthritis in which more than one and not exceeding four joints were involved.

1993 Clin. Rheumatol. 12 361 Parents of 70 children with type 1 pauciarticular juvenile chronic arthritis were asked about inflammatory back-pain.

† pauciarticulate adj. Obsolete rare having few joints or segments.

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1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. II ii. 1312 A pauci-articulate flagellum.

† pauciarticulated adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form pauciarticulatus (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare = pauciarticulate adj.

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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Pauciarticulatus, applied to antennæ when composed of a small number of joints: pauciarticulated.

paucibacillary adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɔːsᵻbəˈsɪl(ə)ri/

/ˌpɔːsᵻˈbasᵻl(ə)ri/

/ˌpɔːsᵻˈbasl̩(ə)ri/

U.S.

/ˌpɔsəˈbæsəˌlɛri/

/ˌpɑsəˈbæsəˌlɛri/

[after French paucibacillaire (1908 or earlier)] Medicine containing few bacilli; spec. designating mycobacterial infections, esp. types of leprosy, in which few or no bacilli can be demonstrated in lesions or secretions; of, relating to, or suffering from such an infection; cf. multibacillary adj. at multi- comb. form 1a.

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1931 Lancet 13 June 1298/2 He [sc. Calmette] pointed out that most people were spontaneously vaccinated against tuberculosis by frequent accidental ‘paucibacillary’ contaminations in early youth.

1991 World Jan. 28/1 It remains only for a philanthropic world to foot the bill—US $2 per patient for paucibacillary (early or mild) cases and US $26 for multibacillary (severe) cases.

2008 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Mar. 761/2 We grouped patients with negative skin smear results for acid-fast bacilli and who had no more than five skin lesions as having paucibacillary leprosy, and those with positive smear results at any site or more than five skin lesions as having multibacillary leprosy.

paucidentate adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɔːsᵻˈdɛnteɪt/

U.S.

/ˌpɔsəˈdɛnˌteɪt/

/ˌpɑsəˈdɛnˌteɪt/

[R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form paucidentatus (see quot. 1857)] having few teeth.

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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Paucidentatus, applied to leaves slightly dentated, as those of the Serjania paucidentata, which have but one or two teeth at their summit: paucidentate.

1877 R. Owen Res. Fossil Remains 169 From the characteristic reduction in size and number of the molar teeth I have associated them as members of a ‘paucidentate’ family or section.

1986 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 73 241/2 He placed Castanopsis (Castanea) indica.., a species with acute serrate leaves, in one section and those species with entire or paucidentate leaves in a second.

pauciflorous adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɔːsᵻˈflɔːrəs/

U.S.

/ˌpɔsəˈflɔrəs/

/ˌpɑsəˈflɔrəs/

[compare French pauciflore (1795); R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form pauciflorus (see quot. 1857)] having few flowers.

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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Pauciflorus, having few flowers, as the Ceanothus pauciflorus, Triticum pauciflorum; or which contains few, as the calathidium of the Knautia: pauciflorous.

1956 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 43 260 A pauciflorous inflorescence is also present in species such as R. macrantha and R. paucifolia.

1995 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 82 609/1 Pauciflorous species produce a very limited (<10) number of flowers that are large in comparison with the plant body.

† paucifoliate adj. [compare French paucifolié (1868 in Littré)] Obsolete rare having few leaves or laminae.

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1895 Cambr. Nat. Hist. III. 433 Holohepatica—Cerata mediodorsal, retractile or not, usually paucifoliate, liver never ramified.

† paucifolious adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form paucifolius (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare = paucifoliate adj.

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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Paucifolius, provided with a small number of leaves or folioles, as the Indigofera paucifolia, Bunium paucifolium: paucifolious.

paucilithionite n.

Brit.

/ˌpɔːsᵻˈlɪθɪənʌɪt/

U.S.

/ˌpɔsəˈlɪθiəˌnaɪt/

/ˌpɑsəˈlɪθiəˌnaɪt/

Mineralogy a hypothetical end member of the lepidolite system of minerals; cf. lithionite n.

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1942 A. N. Winchell in Amer. Mineralogist 27 117 The second end-member [of the lepidolite system] (K₂Li₃Al₅Si₆O₂₀F₄) has no name and no varietal name in the literature seems to be appropriate. In these circumstances the writer would suggest that it be called paucilithionite.

1963 Mineral. Abstr. 16 189/2 142 Chemical analyses of lithium micas from the literature have been transformed to the molecules polylithionite, paucilithionite, muscovite, and siderophyllite.

paucilocular adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɔːsᵻˈlɒkjᵿlə/

U.S.

/ˌpɔsəˈlɑkjələr/

/ˌpɑsəˈlɑkjələr/

Anatomy and Medicine rare having few loculi.

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1872 E. R. Peaslee Ovarian Tumors 31 Paucilocular, in opposition to polycystic.

1996 Jrnl. Neurocytol. 25 127/1 In cold-acclimated rats, an enlargement of the vascular connective tissue and an evident increase of paucilocular and multilocular adipocytes were observed.

† paucinervate adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form paucinervatus (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare (of a leaf) having few veins.

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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Paucinervatus, Paucinervius, applied to a plant of which the leaves are slightly veined, as the Desmodium paucinervium..: paucinervate: paucinervious.

† paucinervious adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form paucinervius (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare = paucinervate adj.

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paucipinnate adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɔːsᵻˈpɪneɪt/

/ˌpɔːsᵻˈpɪnᵻt/

U.S.

/ˌpɔsəˈpɪˌneɪt/

/ˌpɑsəˈpɪˌneɪt/

/ˌpɔsəˈpɪnət/

/ˌpɑsəˈpɪnət/

rare (of a leaf or frond) pinnate with few leaflets or pinnae.

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1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Pauci- Paucipinnate..pinnate with few leaflets.

1953 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 80 92 The frond is narrowly lanceolate with numerous pinnae.., not simple as in Schaffneria nigripes, nor paucipinnate as in Asplenium Ruta-muraria.

† pauciradiate adj. Obsolete rare having few rays.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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1890 Cent. Dict. Pauciradiate, having few rays, as a fish's fin.

† pauciradiated adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form pauciradiatus (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare = pauciradiate adj.

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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Pauciradiatus, applied to the umbella when it contains but a small number of rays, as in the Hydrocotyle vulgaris..: pauciradiated.

paucispiral adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɔːsᵻˈspʌɪrəl/

/ˌpɔːsᵻˈspʌɪrl̩/

U.S.

/ˌpɔsəˈspaɪrəl/

/ˌpɑsəˈspaɪrəl/

(of a mollusc's operculum or shell) having few whorls.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [adjective] > of parts of molluscs > of shell or parts of shell

testaceous1668

trivalvous1681

articulate1685

tabulous1734

concamerated1747

costated1751

ribbed1752

multivalve1753

umbilical1755

multivalved1759

trichite1765

right-handed1776

ventricose1777

unequivalved1788

sinistral1803

white-lipped1813

white-mouthed1815

turriculated1822

umbonial1824

turreted1826

siphunculated1828

columellar1829

sinistrorsal1830

canaliferous1834

spirivalve1835

turrited1835

versant1839

mitriform1843

paucispiral1843

turriculate1843

siphuncled1847

ventricous1850

camerated1851

convolute1851

perforated1851

parietal1854

septiferous1854

planorbiform1856

planorboid1856

trivalved1856

turrite1856

siphunculate1875

turriform1875

umbonic1877

costate1881

interlocular1888

varicated1891

lirate1894

evolute1896

1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 386/1 Operculum membranous; paucispiral on the left border; the rest of its lamellæ obliquely transverse.

1946 H. Woods Palæontol. Invertebr. (ed. 8) 278 The operculum is..sometimes formed of a large number of whorls (multispiral) as in Trochus, or of a few whorls (paucispiral) as in Littorina.

1990 Jrnl. Molluscan Stud. 56 239/1 All four species have lecithotrophic development which is reflected in their inflated paucispiral protoconchs.

† paucispirated adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form paucispiratus (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare = paucispiral adj.

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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Paucispiratus, applied to the operculum of the Mollusca when it is formed of only one or two turns of a spire..: paucispirated.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pauci-
释义	pauci-comb. form Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pauci-. Etymology: < classical Latin pauci-, combining form (in e.g. pauciloquium pauciloquy n.) of paucus few < the same Indo-European base as few adj., pron., and n.Found in a small number of formations illustrated below. Chiefly Zoology and Botany. Forming chiefly adjectives with the sense ‘few, little’. pauciarthritis n. Brit. /ˌpɔːsɪɑːˈθrʌɪtᵻs/ , U.S. /ˌpɔsiɑrˈθraɪdᵻs/ , /ˌpɑsiɑrˈθraɪdᵻs/ Medicine arthritis affecting only a few joints. ΚΠ 1940 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 7 Dec. 2023/2 In all, forty-three instances of arthritis of the knee and thirty-five of pauciarthritis were studied. 1994 Ann. Rheumatic Dis. 53 759 The mode of presentation was monoarthritis on 10 patients.., pauciarthritis in 30..and polyarthritis in 37. pauciarticular adj. Brit. /ˌpɔːsɪɑːˈtɪkjᵿlə/ , U.S. /ˌpɔsiɑrˈtɪkjələr/ , /ˌpɑsiɑrˈtɪkjələr/ Medicine (of arthritis) affecting only a few joints. ΚΠ 1940 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 7 Dec. 2023/2 This report concerns a study of children with mono-articular arthritis involving the knee, and pauciarticular..arthritis in which more than one and not exceeding four joints were involved. 1993 Clin. Rheumatol. 12 361 Parents of 70 children with type 1 pauciarticular juvenile chronic arthritis were asked about inflammatory back-pain. † pauciarticulate adj. Obsolete rare having few joints or segments. ΚΠ 1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. II ii. 1312 A pauci-articulate flagellum. † pauciarticulated adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form pauciarticulatus (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare = pauciarticulate adj. ΚΠ 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Pauciarticulatus, applied to antennæ when composed of a small number of joints: pauciarticulated. paucibacillary adj. Brit. /ˌpɔːsᵻbəˈsɪl(ə)ri/ , /ˌpɔːsᵻˈbasᵻl(ə)ri/ , /ˌpɔːsᵻˈbasl̩(ə)ri/ , U.S. /ˌpɔsəˈbæsəˌlɛri/ , /ˌpɑsəˈbæsəˌlɛri/ [after French paucibacillaire (1908 or earlier)] Medicine containing few bacilli; spec. designating mycobacterial infections, esp. types of leprosy, in which few or no bacilli can be demonstrated in lesions or secretions; of, relating to, or suffering from such an infection; cf. multibacillary adj. at multi- comb. form 1a. ΚΠ 1931 Lancet 13 June 1298/2 He [sc. Calmette] pointed out that most people were spontaneously vaccinated against tuberculosis by frequent accidental ‘paucibacillary’ contaminations in early youth. 1991 World Jan. 28/1 It remains only for a philanthropic world to foot the bill—US $2 per patient for paucibacillary (early or mild) cases and US $26 for multibacillary (severe) cases. 2008 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Mar. 761/2 We grouped patients with negative skin smear results for acid-fast bacilli and who had no more than five skin lesions as having paucibacillary leprosy, and those with positive smear results at any site or more than five skin lesions as having multibacillary leprosy. paucidentate adj. Brit. /ˌpɔːsᵻˈdɛnteɪt/ , U.S. /ˌpɔsəˈdɛnˌteɪt/ , /ˌpɑsəˈdɛnˌteɪt/ [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form paucidentatus (see quot. 1857)] having few teeth. ΚΠ 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Paucidentatus, applied to leaves slightly dentated, as those of the Serjania paucidentata, which have but one or two teeth at their summit: paucidentate. 1877 R. Owen Res. Fossil Remains 169 From the characteristic reduction in size and number of the molar teeth I have associated them as members of a ‘paucidentate’ family or section. 1986 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 73 241/2 He placed Castanopsis (Castanea) indica.., a species with acute serrate leaves, in one section and those species with entire or paucidentate leaves in a second. pauciflorous adj. Brit. /ˌpɔːsᵻˈflɔːrəs/ , U.S. /ˌpɔsəˈflɔrəs/ , /ˌpɑsəˈflɔrəs/ [compare French pauciflore (1795); R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form pauciflorus (see quot. 1857)] having few flowers. ΚΠ 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Pauciflorus, having few flowers, as the Ceanothus pauciflorus, Triticum pauciflorum; or which contains few, as the calathidium of the Knautia: pauciflorous. 1956 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 43 260 A pauciflorous inflorescence is also present in species such as R. macrantha and R. paucifolia. 1995 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 82 609/1 Pauciflorous species produce a very limited (<10) number of flowers that are large in comparison with the plant body. † paucifoliate adj. [compare French paucifolié (1868 in Littré)] Obsolete rare having few leaves or laminae. ΚΠ 1895 Cambr. Nat. Hist. III. 433 Holohepatica—Cerata mediodorsal, retractile or not, usually paucifoliate, liver never ramified. † paucifolious adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form paucifolius (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare = paucifoliate adj. ΚΠ 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Paucifolius, provided with a small number of leaves or folioles, as the Indigofera paucifolia, Bunium paucifolium: paucifolious. paucilithionite n. Brit. /ˌpɔːsᵻˈlɪθɪənʌɪt/ , U.S. /ˌpɔsəˈlɪθiəˌnaɪt/ , /ˌpɑsəˈlɪθiəˌnaɪt/ Mineralogy a hypothetical end member of the lepidolite system of minerals; cf. lithionite n. ΚΠ 1942 A. N. Winchell in Amer. Mineralogist 27 117 The second end-member [of the lepidolite system] (K₂Li₃Al₅Si₆O₂₀F₄) has no name and no varietal name in the literature seems to be appropriate. In these circumstances the writer would suggest that it be called paucilithionite. 1963 Mineral. Abstr. 16 189/2 142 Chemical analyses of lithium micas from the literature have been transformed to the molecules polylithionite, paucilithionite, muscovite, and siderophyllite. paucilocular adj. Brit. /ˌpɔːsᵻˈlɒkjᵿlə/ , U.S. /ˌpɔsəˈlɑkjələr/ , /ˌpɑsəˈlɑkjələr/ Anatomy and Medicine rare having few loculi. ΚΠ 1872 E. R. Peaslee Ovarian Tumors 31 Paucilocular, in opposition to polycystic. 1996 Jrnl. Neurocytol. 25 127/1 In cold-acclimated rats, an enlargement of the vascular connective tissue and an evident increase of paucilocular and multilocular adipocytes were observed. † paucinervate adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form paucinervatus (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare (of a leaf) having few veins. ΚΠ 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Paucinervatus, Paucinervius, applied to a plant of which the leaves are slightly veined, as the Desmodium paucinervium..: paucinervate: paucinervious. † paucinervious adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form paucinervius (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare = paucinervate adj. ΚΠ 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Paucinervatus, Paucinervius, applied to a plant of which the leaves are slightly veined, as the Desmodium paucinervium..: paucinervate: paucinervious. paucipinnate adj. Brit. /ˌpɔːsᵻˈpɪneɪt/ , /ˌpɔːsᵻˈpɪnᵻt/ , U.S. /ˌpɔsəˈpɪˌneɪt/ , /ˌpɑsəˈpɪˌneɪt/ , /ˌpɔsəˈpɪnət/ , /ˌpɑsəˈpɪnət/ rare (of a leaf or frond) pinnate with few leaflets or pinnae. ΚΠ 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Pauci- Paucipinnate..pinnate with few leaflets. 1953 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 80 92 The frond is narrowly lanceolate with numerous pinnae.., not simple as in Schaffneria nigripes, nor paucipinnate as in Asplenium Ruta-muraria. † pauciradiate adj. Obsolete rare having few rays.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Pauciradiate, having few rays, as a fish's fin. † pauciradiated adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form pauciradiatus (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare = pauciradiate adj. ΚΠ 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Pauciradiatus, applied to the umbella when it contains but a small number of rays, as in the Hydrocotyle vulgaris..: pauciradiated. paucispiral adj. Brit. /ˌpɔːsᵻˈspʌɪrəl/ , /ˌpɔːsᵻˈspʌɪrl̩/ , U.S. /ˌpɔsəˈspaɪrəl/ , /ˌpɑsəˈspaɪrəl/ (of a mollusc's operculum or shell) having few whorls. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [adjective] > of parts of molluscs > of shell or parts of shell testaceous1668 trivalvous1681 articulate1685 tabulous1734 concamerated1747 costated1751 ribbed1752 multivalve1753 umbilical1755 multivalved1759 trichite1765 right-handed1776 ventricose1777 unequivalved1788 sinistral1803 white-lipped1813 white-mouthed1815 turriculated1822 umbonial1824 turreted1826 siphunculated1828 columellar1829 sinistrorsal1830 canaliferous1834 spirivalve1835 turrited1835 versant1839 mitriform1843 paucispiral1843 turriculate1843 siphuncled1847 ventricous1850 camerated1851 convolute1851 perforated1851 parietal1854 septiferous1854 planorbiform1856 planorboid1856 trivalved1856 turrite1856 siphunculate1875 turriform1875 umbonic1877 costate1881 interlocular1888 varicated1891 lirate1894 evolute1896 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 386/1 Operculum membranous; paucispiral on the left border; the rest of its lamellæ obliquely transverse. 1946 H. Woods Palæontol. Invertebr. (ed. 8) 278 The operculum is..sometimes formed of a large number of whorls (multispiral) as in Trochus, or of a few whorls (paucispiral) as in Littorina. 1990 Jrnl. Molluscan Stud. 56 239/1 All four species have lecithotrophic development which is reflected in their inflated paucispiral protoconchs. † paucispirated adj. [R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form paucispiratus (see quot. 1857)] Obsolete rare = paucispiral adj. ΚΠ 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Paucispiratus, applied to the operculum of the Mollusca when it is formed of only one or two turns of a spire..: paucispirated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form1843
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