单词 | procatarxis |
释义 | † procatarxisn. Medicine. Obsolete. A procatarctic cause of a disease; = procatarctic n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > cause of disease conjunct causec1400 continent cause1605 procatarctic1666 procatarxis1681 germ1700 predisponent1771 1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Ess. Pathol. Brain vi. 42 Hence at length, a Convulsive procatarxis or more remote cause, becomes Common to either end of the Trunk of the same Nerves. 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 236 Procatarctica is the pre-existent Cause of a Disease, which co-operates with others that are subsequent; whether it be external or internal, as Anger, or Heat in the Air, which beget ill Juice in the Blood, and cause a Feaver. Procatarxis, the same. 1711 B. Allen Nat. Hist. Mineral-waters Great Brit. 84 It is but in two Cases sudden, without Procatarxis evident, as I shall note by-and-by. 1797 R. Bree Pract. Inq. Disordered Respiration 103 The procatarxis is in his language a redundance of these humors in the mass of blood, and in the whole body. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1681 |
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