| 单词 | pectinate | 
| 释义 | pectinaten. Chemistry and Biochemistry.   A salt or ester of a pectinic acid. ΚΠ 1938    Jrnl. Physical Chem. 42 308  				In table 4..v is taken for the purpose of this calculation as 2 for sodium pectinate and as 3 for magnesium pectinate. 1952    Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 39 698/1  				Mattson (1946) demonstrated a mechanism in grapefruit albedo involving pH, phytinates and pectinates which might operate as well with potassium as with sodium. 2003    Biomaterials 24 3337/2  				A carefully controlled amount of calcium is necessary to provide optimal protection for drugs in calcium pectinate matrices. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pectinateadj.1 Obsolete. rare.   Of hemp: dressed, combed. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > 			[adjective]		 > made of hemp > type or quality of hemp pectinate?a1425 braked1653 rippled1724 water rotted1771 retted1788 outshot1794 topped1794 ?a1425    tr.  Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie 		(N.Y. Acad. Med.)	 f. 55  				It is founden for to make hem of stupez canabinez, i. of hempe, namely, wele pectinate [L. pectinatis], i. heclede & clensed. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2020). pectinateadj.2 1.   a.  Chiefly Botany and Zoology. Having narrow projections or divisions set closely in a row like the teeth of a comb. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > 			[adjective]		 > like teeth of a comb pectinated1671 pectinate1757 1757    J. Hill Eden 196 		(heading)	  				Pectinate-leav'd Othonna. 1793    T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. N8v  				Pectinatum folium, a Pectinate leaf. 1833    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 123 806  				It [sc. the operculum] has hitherto been observed only in those Mollusca which have pectinate branchiæ. 1846    J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 594  				Margin of the pinnules pectinate. 1870    J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 189  				Bracts with..pectinate tip and margins. 1921    H. T. Fernald Appl. Entomol. xxix. 256  				Family Lasiocampidæ... The moths are of only medium size, with..antennæ fringed on one side (pectinate). 1969    R. F. Chapman Insects xxxvi. 737  				The antennae of many male Lepidoptera which are attracted by scent are strongly pectinate. 1995    C. Nielsen Animal Evol. xv. 112  				A mantle cavity with pectinate gills.  b.  Anatomy. Designating the parallel ridges of myocardium present on the inner surface of right atrium and both auricular appendages. Chiefly in  pectinate muscle. ΚΠ 1848    R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon 		(ed. 7)	 634/2  				Pectinated muscles, the fascicular texture observed in the right auricle of the heart:—Musculi Auriculæ Pectinati.]			 1890    Cent. Dict. (at cited word)  				Pectinate muscles, the musculi pectinati of the heart. 1914    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 B. 205 389  				The tænia, taking a straight course to the inferior cava, forms a base from which the pectinate bands sweep slightly away around the body of the right auricle. 1952    C. D. O'Malley  & J. B. de C. M. Saunders Leonardo da Vinci on Human Body 216  				The heart muscle was divided into external and internal or extrinsic and intrinsic, the ventricular wall forming the first and the papillary and pectinate muscles, the second. 2002    Pacing & Cardiac Electrophysiol. 25 342  				The right atrium contains prominent muscular bundles and an extensive array of pectinate muscles.  2.  Biology. Designating or relating to a cladogram or tree diagram in which, at each branching point, one branch (usually depicted on the left hand side) represents a single taxon and is not further subdivided. ΚΠ 1977    Systematic Zool. 26 350/1  				In the equally unlikely case of a completely ‘pectinate’ tree, he could employ up to 144 taxon names and 48 categories. 1990    Proc. Royal Soc. B. 240 143  				In general, a pectinate tree, i.e., a comb-like one with many branches that each involve few taxa, is likely to give better, or at least apparently less equivocal information, than one where there are few branches each with many species. Compounds  pectinate ligament  n.				 [after scientific Latin ligamentum pectinatum (iridis) (1867 or earlier)]			 Anatomy (more fully  pectinate ligament of the iris) a mesh of fibres occupying the angle between the iris and the cornea. ΚΠ 1890    Cent. Dict. (at cited word)  				Pectinate ligament of the iris. 1912    Proc. Royal Soc. B. 85 456  				Arthur Thomson has brought forward anatomical evidence for the view that the ciliary muscle opens the channels in the pectinate ligament. 1996    Jrnl. Vet. Med. Sci. 58 977  				In the dog and the cat, the pectinate ligament consisted of slender strands that were separated by large intertrabecular spaces.   pectinate line  n. Anatomy the serrated line between the mucosal surfaces of the rectum and anus, at the level of the anal valves (cf. pecten n. 1c). ΚΠ 1929    F. C. Yeomans Proctology i. 16  				They [sc. the anal valves] thus form an irregular line known as the pectinate line. 1977    Jrnl. Pediatric Surg. 12 95  				A urethroanal connection through which urine was passed preferentially into the otherwise normal rectum at the pectinate line. 2001    Amer. Family Physician 		(Nexis)	 63 2391  				The dentate or pectinate line divides the squamous epithelium from the mucosal or columnar epithelium.   pectinate muscle  n. see sense  1b. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pectinatev. Obsolete. rare.  1.  transitive. To comb (see also quot. 1656). rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair)			[verb (transitive)]		 > comb kembc1000 comb1398 pectinate1623 rede1718 to comb out1854 redd1864 back-comb1865 fine-tooth comb1889 rat1904 hackle1929 tease1957 sleek1959 1623    H. Cockeram Eng. Dict.  				Pectinate, to comb. 1656    T. Blount Glossographia  				Pectinate, to kemb, to harrow corn, while it is in grass, to rake corn together.  2.  transitive and intransitive. To fit together alternately, like the teeth of two combs; to interlock. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > intersect			[verb (transitive)]		 > interlock or interdigitate lock?a1425 pectinate1646 pitcha1668 interlock1808 interdigitate1864 the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > intersect			[verb (intransitive)]		 > interlock or interdigitate interlock1632 lock1643 indigitate1835 interdigitate1849 mesh1882 pectinate1884 intermesh1909 1646    Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica  v. xxii. 266  				To sit crosse legg'd, or with our fingers pectinated or shut together is accounted bad. 1884    F. O. Bower  & D. H. Scott tr.  H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 234  				The bundles..are separated from one another by other bundles, which pass between them, and pectinate with them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < | 
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