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单词 plicature
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plicaturen.

Brit. /ˈplʌɪkətʃə/, /ˈplʌɪkətʃʊə/, /ˈplɪkətʃə/, /ˈplɪkətʃʊə/, U.S. /ˈplɪkətʃər/, /ˈplɪkəˌtʃʊ(ə)r/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French plicature; Latin plicātūra.
Etymology: < Middle French plicature a place in the body where there is a bend (1314 in Old French) and its etymon classical Latin plicātūra action of folding, a fold (Pliny), in post-classical Latin also a place in the body where there is a bend (1363 in Chauliac) < plicāt- , past participial stem of plicāre to fold (see plicate v.) + -ūra -ure suffix1.
1. Anatomy. The fold created by flexing a joint; the place at which this occurs. Obsolete.
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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 14 The lesse [bone]..goþ fro þe plicature [?c1425 Paris boghte; L plicatura] of þe cubite vnto þe hand.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 19 Þe enguynez..bene glandelous fleshez ordeynd in þe plicaturez [?c1425 Parisbowynge] of þe þies.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 50 Kut þe flesh aboute þe plicature [?c1425 Paris foldynge] of þe knee.
2. A fold, a ridge; spec. = plica n. 2. In early use also: †a plexus (obsolete rare). Also figurative. Now chiefly Botany.
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the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > [noun]
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1578 J. Banister Hist. Man vii. f. 96 Into this plicature..are immitted two Arteries named Carotides.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems 5 No man can unfold The many plicatures so closely prest At lowest verge.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) i. i. 8 They unfold the Plicatures of Truth's garment, but they cannot behold the lovely face of it.
1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 3038 Leaves, intended for the said Trunk, and foulded up in the same plicature, wherein, upon the Bean's sprouting, they do appear.
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady 133 Liquid Quicksilver will do great Service in beginning Plicatures of the Intestines.
1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 271 The Pia Mater..investing the brain, in all its convolutions or plicatures.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 18 Divisions have been founded upon the nature of the plicature of the cotyledons.
1873 T. B. Brooks Iron-bearing Rocks 75 Not only do these plicatures take place on the small scale, as shown in hand specimens, but precisely similar folds exist in masses of rock, which may be hundreds of feet thick.
1960 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 47 312 Calyx limb strongly monolobate..with a plicature along its median nerve.
3. Surgery. = plication n. 3.
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1985 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 149 251/2 One was performed by a laterolateral plicature at the intestinal anastomosis.
1998 Aesthetic Plastic Surg. 22 225 Plicature of the rectus abdominis and obliques with wide dissection was accomplished.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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