单词 | retrocedent |
释义 | retrocedentadj.ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [adjective] > retrograde retrogradec1400 retrogradientc1425 retrogradant1523 retrocedent1583 1583 R. Harvey Astrological Disc. sig. A8v, Physick All which time frowning Saturne shal be retrocedent also. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. i. 142 The Retrocedent Aspect is brisker according to his more fixed Stint of fewer (i.e. but Three Days) for the most part. 2. Medicine. a. Of gout, a skin eruption, etc.: that (supposedly) disappears from its original site and moves to another, or moves from the outer part of the body to affect internal organs. Now rare and historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > gout > striking inwards misplaced1768 retrocedent1777 recedent1785 1777 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic I. ii. xii. 371 Another state of the disease we name the retrocedent gout. This occurs when an inflammatory state of the joints has, in the usual manner, come on, but without arising to the ordinary degree of pain and inflammation. 1801 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 729 I have been..confined to my bed, with..what is called irregular or retrocedent Gout. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 523 In the two ensuing varieties, constituting atonic and retrocedent gout, we have a podagric diathesis grafted upon an unsound frame. 1873 Med. & Surg. Reporter 16 Aug. 112/1 There are certain forms of disease which arise chiefly from suppressed or retrocedent eruption. 1899 A. P. Luff Gout ii. ix. 124 Attacks of retrocedent gout have also not uncommonly followed the extremely baneful practice of suddenly plunging a gouty foot into cold water. 1933 Lancet 17 June 1271/2 The eruption may be very ill-developed, late in appearance, or retrocedent. 1991 William & Mary Q. 48 429 He died of ‘retrocedent gout’ on January 15 of that year. b. = retrograde adj. 3c. rare. Now disused. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [adjective] > tuber or tubercle > qualities of retrograde1817 retrocedent1852 1852 E. Darwin On Syphilis i. 45 His present symptoms were, a large circular patch of tubercular eruptions..on the middle of the forehead, several deeply-colored retrocedent tubercles on the chin, [etc.]. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 264 Some change in the lungs, such as collapse or retrocedent tubercle..preceded the establishment of emphysema. 1908 Practitioner Sept. 415 In localised tuberculosis, elsewhere than in the lungs, T.R. [sc. a form of tuberculin] in tiny doses..often produces striking improvement in chronic, stationary, or retrocedent cases. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1583 |
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