单词 | reaccumulate |
释义 | reaccumulatev. 1. intransitive. To accumulate again; to regroup; to reaggregate. In early use also transitive (in passive). ΚΠ 1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 1000 But still the morbifick matter was reaccumulated to the diseased Part. 1720 tr. L. Bellini Mech. Acct. Fevers xxiv. 317 After it [sc. the Lentor] hath passed out of the Arteries into the Veins, the Fever will cease, and the Patient remain well so long as it ceases to reaccumulate in the Arteries. 1793 J. Abernethy Surg. & Physiol. Ess. 5 The pus, doubtless, would speedily reaccumulate. 1850 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 13 280 Some flagrant nuisances have been suppressed, and have not had time to reaccumulate. 1874 G. Lawson Dis. Eye (ed. 2) 53 If..the aqueous is found to have reaccumulated, the central point is again opened. 1936 W. W. C. Topley Princ. Bacteriol. & Immunity II. iii. liv. 780 Even if the separate groups are reaccumulated into a single herd..the final total mortality will be less than if they had passed through the whole epidemic period as a single community. 1962 Lancet 12 May 1012/2 In a few cases fluid reaccumulates and repeated myringotomy may be required. 1975 Times 15 Oct. 13/5 Some [pollutants]..reaccumulate in shellfish and in the food chain of fish, birds and mammals. 2001 Science 23 Nov. 1609 Collisions between large asteroids generate as many as 50,000 kilometer-sized fragments, some of which will eventually reaccumulate to form aggregates. 2. transitive. To cause to accumulate again; to acquire or store again. ΚΠ 1859 T. A. B. Spratt Investig. Effect Prevailing Wave Infl. on Nile's Deposits 7 As fast as the wind removes the sun-dried sand from the beach, the surf re-accumulates it again. 1928 Times 28 June 24/4 Europe gradually reaccumulated capital to replace that which had been destroyed during the long years of war. 1947 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 3 488/2 Patients with metastases to the pleura may reaccumulate fluid with great rapidity. 1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. xxxiii. 855/1 The small changes in ionic distribution..are now reversed by an active metabolic process that extrudes sodium (and possibly also calcium) and reaccumulates potassium. 2006 Adv. Exper. Med. & Biol. 576 113 Marked differences occur in the speed with which the brain is able to lose or to reaccumulate different types of solutes after recovery from chronic disturbances of body fluid tonicity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1678 |
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