peripheraladj.n.

1808 J. Barclay Muscular Motions p. xxi An aspect..towards the circumference of any part, peripheral; and if towards its centre, central.

1845 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. I. 123 The conveyance of arterial blood to the peripheral system.

1894 Lancet 16 June 1486/1 Those [fibro-adenomata] which are superficial or peripheral, and probably arise in isolated fragments of gland tissue.

1909 Jrnl. Physiol. 38 237 Peripheral reference is the earliest phenomenon of recovery.

1956 D. L. Abramson Diagnosis & Treatm. Peripheral Vascular Dis. p. xiii The physiology of the peripheral circulation.

1977 Jrnl. Toxicol. & Environmental Health 2 1173 Within 24 hr of the first exposure to NO₂, the response was characterized by a marked increase in [3H] thymidine labeling in the bronchi, bronchioles, and alveolar ducts, but not in the trachea or the peripheral alveoli.

1999 Clin. Radiol. 54 507 Bronchiectasis was mainly central in 16 lobes, and both central and peripheral in 54 lobes.

2002 Massage & Bodywork Apr.–May 12/1 (caption) Clogged arteries in the legs, or peripheral artery disease, can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

1849 C. A. Harris Dict. Dental Sci. & Med. Terminol. 606/2 A small wheel with the peripheral surface covered with buckskin or other soft leather.

1865 G. Grote Plato I. i. 6 This peripheral fire was broken up and aggregated into separate masses.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 876 The ligulate peripheral flowers of Bellis perennis.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience ix. 196 Why aims that were peripheral become at a certain moment central.

1942 Jrnl. Geomorphol. 5 11 If both elements of the pediplane are present, the peripediment is always beyond and peripheral to the pediment.

1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) iv. 84 A peripheral morpheme never consists of a root and is always structurally ‘outside’ of the nuclear constituent.

1962 Listener 10 May 825/2 Dr O'Leary mentions it in his conclusion, but it is peripheral to his main interest.

1990 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87 7650/2 (caption) Note the multiple small peripheral appendages on most globular core domains.

1954 Jrnl. Soc. Industr. & Appl. Math. 2 130 As r [the ratio of data handling operations to computing operations] gets smaller the accent shifts from input–output and peripheral equipment to computer speed.

1963 A. M. Hilton Logic, Computing Machines, & Automation vi. 256 Electric typewriters and machines to perforate paper tape are among the most widely used items of peripheral equipment, particularly for small computing-machine systems.

1978 B. W. Kernighan & D. M. Ritchie C Programming Lang. viii. 159 All peripheral devices, even the user's terminal, are files in the file system.

1999 J. Naughton Brief Hist. Future (2001) xiii. 262 He found he needed..software drivers—the programs which drive peripheral devices like screen, printers, keyboards and modems.

1891 Science 3 Apr. 190/2 There are only ten peripherals on each side, as in the Staurotypidæ, Cinosternidæ, and the fossil Anostira.

1914 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 1 387 There seems no particular reason for comparing the 1 or 2 peripheral cells of P. hispidula..or the 6 peripherals of other Peperomias.

1957 World Politics 9 150 A degree in Economics, having a ‘core’ curriculum, supported by a fringe of peripherals, International Relations being one.

1974 Nature 13 Dec. 517/2 In a period of financial gloom the first thing a business does is economise on its peripherals.

1999 Amer. Midland Naturalist 142 192 Six bones of Sternotherus odoratus were recovered... These included three peripherals and one costal.

1962 IRE Trans. Electronic Computers 11 223/2 This technique can also be extended to include several main programs as well as the smaller subroutines used for controlling peripherals.

1977 D. Bagley Enemy xii. 81 A small computer with a variety of input and output peripherals including an X-Y plotter.

1993 Compute Jan. 8/1 Slots that would otherwise be occupied by cards for these two essential functions are available for adding user peripherals instead.

1837 Lancet 4 Nov. 203/2 In relation to the peripheral nerves there are some facts worthy of attentive consideration.

1872 C. Darwin Expression Emotions Man & Animals i. 35 Reflex actions..are due to the excitement of a peripheral nerve.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxix. 1171 The commonest tumours arising from the peripheral nerves are the neurofibromata.

2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health ii. 274 Tuberculoid leprosy is commonly self-healing, and damage to the peripheral nerves is usually limited.

1846 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 22 54 Brandy-drinkers can generally bear very hot baths; the peripheral nervous system is dulled in them.

1860 J. E. Erichsen Sci. & Art Surg. (new ed.) 575 The consequence of some wound that implicates or irritates a portion of the peripheral nervous system.

1930 Q. Rev. Biol. 5 32/2 Hoven studied extensively the histogenesis of the peripheral nervous system in chick embryos.

2001 HealthFacts Nov. 2/1 Side effects relating to the peripheral nervous system (PNS) are generally thought to be mild and short-lived.

1883 Lancet 3 Mar. 369/2 The result of a general peripheral neuritis.

1924 Sci. Monthly June 585 One man..may develop cirrhosis of the liver whereas another equally alcoholic may succumb to a peripheral neuritis and a Korsakov's psychosis.

1999 Jrnl. Neurovirol. 5 591 Viruses invade neurons and thereby cause encephalitis or peripheral neuritis.

1936 I. S. Wechsler in Oxf. Med. 6 xxiv. 648 The writer would therefore suggest the substitution of multiple or peripheral neuropathy for neuritis.

2000 Massage & Bodywork Apr.–May 140/2 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) falls into a category of peripheral neuropathy and is one of the fastest-growing dysfunctions affecting the American population today.

1884 Lancet 31 May 975/2 Combined with altered circulation in these organs and peripheral œdema.

1953 Missouri Med. 50 915 (title) The differential diagnosis of peripheral edema.

1977 New Zealand Med. Jrnl. 85 129 Idiopathic oedema..is characterised by an excessive diurnal weight gain with the development of peripheral oedema when the patient is in the upright position.

2000 Brit. Med. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 29 Apr. 1188 Diuretics are generally prescribed for all patients with heart failure who have evidence of fluid retention, such as pulmonary congestion, raised jugular venous pressure, peripheral oedema, or ascites.

1872 Lancet 21 Dec. 885/2 It is confirmatory of his doctrine that the peripheral resistance is the result of excessive contraction of the hypertrophied muscular arteries.

1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. i. iv. 92 It is this peripheral resistance (in the minute arteries and capillaries)..which gives the circulation of the blood its peculiar features.

1972 R. Hartenstein Princ. Physiol. ix. 421 Peripheral resistance and the force and rate of cardiac contractions are the major overall factors that determine blood pressure.

1871 Lancet 23 Sept. 421/1 The impairment of the peripheral vision is irregular and more considerable.

1892 Proc. Royal Soc. 51 332 Sometimes the centre remains very good in spite of great loss of peripheral vision.

1928 Times 27 July 10/3 Motorists of experience will readily appreciate the importance of peripheral vision and a short response period.

1992 C. P. Estés Women who run with Wolves ix. 284 Devout women..kneel in the cold nave of the church, their peripheral vision cut off by babushkas pulled far forward.