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单词 poplitic
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popliticadj.

Forms: 1500s popletyke, 1600s popletick, 1600s–1700s poplitick.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French poplitique; Latin popliticus.
Etymology: < Middle French poplitique (a1470 in Chauliac; 1533 as popletique in the passage translated in quot. ?1541; French †poplitique ) and its etymon post-classical Latin popliticus (1363 in Chauliac) < classical Latin poplit- , poples knee-joint, back of the knee, hough (see popliteus n.) + -icus -ic suffix.Compare isolated earlier borrowing of post-classical Latin poplitica (in vena poplitica) into Middle English:?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 71 Veines þe whiche be leten blode..Poplitica vnder þe grete too, Renalis atwixe þe litil too and þe too þat is nexte to him.?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 70 Þay maken foure veynes þe whiche ben comunely lat blood..sophena..sciatica vnder þe vttre ancle, poplitica vnder þe ham, and renalis.
Anatomy. Obsolete.
= popliteal adj.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > knee > [adjective] > back of
poplitic?1541
poplitical1598
poplite1689
popliteal1754
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Kiv Howe many and what veynes ben let blode commonly in the great fote? Answere... The scyatyke vnder the ancle outwarde, and the popletyke [Fr. la popletique] that is vnder the kne.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Vein Popletick vein, the ham-veine.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Poplitick (lat.) belonging to the ham, or leg.
1719 Glossographia Anglicana Nova (ed. 2) (at cited word) Poplitick Vein, a Vein that consists of a double crural Branch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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