单词 | plication |
释义 | plicationn. 1. The action or an act of folding; the state or condition of being folded or having plicae. Now chiefly Biology and Geology. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > [noun] plicationa1400 plicature1578 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 23 It is nessessarie summe lymes to han a sustentacioun and applicacioun [v.r. a plicacioun; L. plicationem], þat is, foldynge, to be streyned & drawen abrod. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 54v (MED) Þe veines..ben after þe plicacioun oþer þe folding off þe knee. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 34 (MED) Þese litil ribbis..þoruȝ þeir plicacioun & foldynge & litil resistence, þei schulden þe lattere be y-broken. 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana 188 Those Colours are no more permanent in them, than those in the Scarlet cloth, upon the various position, extension, plication thereof. 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 285 The smallness of the space for the branchiæ may have been compensated by deep plication of those organs. 1871 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1869–70 11 115 (title) Section across the Allegheny Mountains, to illustrate the proportionate plication of the earth's surface. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 50/1 The later granites subsequent to the plication of the schists have a wide distribution on the..Ben Avon range. 1939 Lancet 13 May 1137/2 Radiologically, the empty rectum shows longitudinal plication which terminates abruptly above at the rectosigmoid junction. 1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) iv. 115 The characteristic plication of the wings enables both convex and concave veins to be easily identified. 1999 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 86 180/2 Plication of leaves... Plication occurs in both genera and is not a diagnostic character at the generic level. 2. A fold, a ridge; (Biology and Medicine) = plica n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > [noun] > a fold foldc1325 plya1500 roll1509 ploy1558 implexure1578 folding1669 plication1701 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > fold or dip > [noun] folda1250 siddle1849 plication1859 saddleback1865 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [noun] > folding plication1859 1701 G. Cheyne New Theory Continual Fevers 46 There must be 4800 Plications, or Circumvolutions in one of these [Glands]. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xlviii. 190 The folds, as other plications have done, open'd of themselves, to oblige my curiosity. 1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 209 This bird has a plication of the aspera arteria. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. i. 4 Thy juridical brow expanding its plications. 1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. (1850) App. i. 710 There are 14 to 16 plications in half an inch; and the plicæ are smooth. 1859 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) xvii. 450 The plications of the strata in Belgium. 1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle xxiii. 352 It was like an eye-stone in the eye, searching for dust in every place and plication. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) i. 28 Common form, ovoid and smooth; sometimes with a few coarse plications. 1965 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (rev. ed.) ix. 212 Folds range in intensity from broad and gentle undulations to tightly compressed plications. 1991 A. D. Bell Plant Form (1993) i. 93/1 One effect of the splitting between plications of a palm leaf is that the attachment of an individual leaflet, or ‘finger’, to the rachis or petiole can take two forms. 3. Surgery. The making of tucks or folds in an organ, esp. a hollow viscus, usually to reduce its volume. Cf. earlier gastroplication n. at gastro- comb. form . ΚΠ 1930 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 10 83/1 Shortening of the pedicle is accomplished by plication. 1965 Surg., Gynecol. & Obstetr, 121 1340 (title) A simple intestinal plication. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 21 Oct. 995/1 The inferior vena cava was tied circumferentially above the previous site of plication. 1978 Arch. Surg. 113 1236 100 patients required left ventricular aneurysm resections or plications. 2004 Clin. Neurophysiol. 115 1469 Radiological evidence for an indication of diaphragmatic plication. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400 |
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