单词 | postuterine |
释义 | postuterineadj. 1. Anatomy and Zoology. Originally: situated behind the uterus; retro-uterine (now rare). In later use: designating or representing the posterior branch of the uterus, or posterior genital tube, of a nematode. ΚΠ 1872 Lancet 22 June 853/2 Post-uterine intra-peritoneal hæmatocele. 1912 Lancet 27 Apr. 1129/1 After the second confinement her medical attendant told her that there was a post-uterine tumour. 1968 Canad. Jrnl. Zool. 48 466/2 Post-uterine sac 30 μ (16–47) long, usually divided into three compartments. 1981 A. Maggenti Gen. Nematol. 137 Generally among monovarial forms the second reduced or vestigial uterus is still evident and is called the postuterine or prouterine sac, depending on whether it is either a remnant of the posterior or anterior genital tube. 1984 Nematologica 30 131 Intra- and interspecific variation found in length and septation of the postuterine branch, previously believed to be diagnostic at a species level, negates its taxonomic value. 1993 Jrnl. Nematol. 25 161 Bursaphelenchus abruptus n. sp. can be differentiated from other species of Bursaphelenchus by the absence of head annules, stylet length, length of the postuterine sac, [etc.]. 2. Designating, relating to, or occurring in the period of life after birth, as contrasted with the intrauterine period; post-natal. ΚΠ 1931 Lancet 9 May 1010/1 In post-uterine life a reversion to this fœtal function occurs in a variety of diseases of the blood. 1937 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 228 168 Such differentiation as some of these appendages display in post-uterine life..must have been effected, independently of endocrine influence, during the sexually indifferent phase of embryonic life. 1974 Current Anthropol. 15 460/1 The prolonged postuterine maturation period of man is interpreted as compensating for the delay. 1999 Ethics 110 78 Given a massive enough program of sperm testing, the contrivance of appropriate environments (uterine and postuterine), we could allow Superdad to bear any of a number of genotypes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1872 |
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