单词 | pulsion |
释义 | pulsionn. 1. The action or an act of driving or pushing. Now rare.In quot. 1649 apparently a misprint for pulsation, which occurs in earlier and later editions. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > [noun] driving1436 impulsion?a1475 pulsion1607 the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > [noun] pulsea1398 pulsation?a1425 stroke1538 pulsidge1600 pulsion1607 mication1686 ictus1707 beat1755 pulse beat1838 blood-beat1851 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse sig. H3 Vital, because they giue power of motion & pulsion vnto the arteries: which motion any liuing creature hath. 1649 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Wks. (new ed.) v. iii. 126 There may ensue..a deadly interception of the pulsion [1634 pulsation] of the Brain. 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xv. 157 One Motion is Pulsion or Driving; another Traction or Drawing. Pulsion, when the Movent makes the Moved Body goe before it; and Traction, when it makes it follow. 1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1060 I know not, Sir, if any has accompted for the Phœnomenon, but I imagine it may be solved by Suction..or Pulsion, as in the application of a Cupping-glass to the Flesh. 1731 S. Hales Statical Ess. I. 111 If this great quantity [of sap] were carried up by pulsion or trusion. a1793 Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1793) III. 482 Body acts on body by contact and pulsion. 1836–48 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Clouds i. iv Pulsion, and prension. 1879 Times 30 June 8/5 The central heating can be best effected..by use of a water-heating arrangement in connexion with a ventilation effected by pulsion. 1987 Mining Mag. (Nexis) Apr. 300 The differential stroke enables Jeffrey's process to handle deeper material beds by use of an infinite number of variations to the pulsion, expansion and suction periods. 2. Psychoanalysis. An unconscious drive or impulse influencing the development of human personality. ΚΠ 1900 A. T. Ormond Found. Knowl. x. 235 There is absolutely no essential difference between the activity we call volition and the activity we call judgment. They are both self-pulsions. 1951 H. A. Murray in T. Parsons & E. A. Shils Toward Gen. Theory Action iv. iii. 445 These undirected and hence uncoördinated pulsions, so prevalent in childhood, can be regarded as manifestations of surplus energies. 1986 Paragraph Oct. 25 The semiotic is linked to the pre-Oedipal primary processes, the basic pulsions of which Kristeva sees as predominantly anal and oral. Compounds pulsion diverticulum n. Medicine a diverticulum caused by increased pressure within the lumen of a part of the digestive tract, esp. one occurring at the junction of the pharynx and the oesophagus (cf. Zenker n.1 2). ΚΠ 1884 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose ii. 122 They have been called ‘pressure diverticula’ (‘Pulsions-Divertikel’) by Ziemssen, owing to the fact that they are formed by pressure of the oesophagal wall outwards.] 1897 R. H. Fitz in Twentieth Cent. Pract. VIII. 94 The pulsion diverticulum is almost invariably solitary. 1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 18 Apr. 888/2 The pulsion, or true, diverticulum occurs in juxtasphincteric positions: in the pharyngoesophageal region proximal to the cricopharyngeus muscle, ‘the upper esophageal sphincter’; and in the epiphrenic position proximal to the ‘inferior esophageal sphincter’. 2004 Med. Hypotheses 62 933/1 The presence of pulsion diverticulae in the middle third of the esophagus suggests congenital weaknesses in the bowel wall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1607 |
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