单词 | rima |
释义 | riman. Anatomy, Zoology, and Medicine. A narrow aperture or passage, esp. (more fully rima glottidis) that between the vocal cords. In early use also: †a fissure or crack (in the skull, skin, etc.) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > speech organs > types of speech organ > [noun] > throat > rima rima1678 1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rand tr. J. Riolan Sure Guide vi. vi. 270 A fracture with Contusion, if it be strait and in the bone smitten, and immovable, it is termed Fissura or Rima, by the Greeks Rogme.] 1678 J. Browne Compl. Disc. Wounds xxvii. 151 The second [history shall be] of a Rima, penetrating both Tables [of the cranium]. 1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies Table 89 sig.Yyv/2 By this Foramen, or rather Large Rima like the Second Foramen..pass the Branches of the Third, Fifth and some of the Sixth Pair of Nerves. 1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 402 The Epyglottis did not as usual, cover the Rima of the Larynx. 1703 J. Moyle Experienced Chirurgion i. xli. 129 This in a few Hours will induce a considerable Escar; and there will be a Rima or Chink seen all about between the quick and the dead Flesh. 1707 J. Drake Anthropologia Nova i. xxii. 278 The Rima is nothing else but the External Aperture situated below the Os Pubis, between it and the Anus; and the Space betwixt the Rima and the Anus is call'd the Perinæum. 1744 A. Monro Ess. Compar. Anat. 50 In this Subject there is no Uvula, but then the Epiglottis, when prest down, covers the whole Rima entirely. 1791 T. Wright Conc. Hist. Human Muscles x. 112 It opens the Rima, and stretches its Ligaments. 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 427/2 The upper rima [in birds]..gives utterance to the note. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iii. 366 The rima is always more or less widely open during ordinary quiet respiration. 1897 Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. 9 181 Any abnormality above the rima sufficient to obstruct respiration. 1980 Jrnl. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. 177 1135 Endoscopy revealed marked asymmetry of the rima glottidis. 1997 Ann. Otol., Rhinol. & Laryngol. 106 451 [The new procedure] avoids injury to any of the structures within the rima glottidis. Derivatives ˈrimal adj. rare of or relating to the rima glottidis. ΚΠ 1866 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. I. vii. 529 On divaricating the rimal folds [sc. in the Nilotic Crocodile] they are seen to bound a wide pouch anterior to and above the true ‘aditus laryngis’, which is much shorter than the ‘rima’. 1893 C. H. Burnett et al. Syst. Dis. Ear, Nose, & Throat II. iii. 749 In lupus the changes are mostly supra-glottic, in syphilis and tubercle the rimal and infra-rimal structures are preferably attacked. 1946 S. L. Polyak Human Ear in Anat. Transparencies iv. 49/1 The vocals cords are straightened and inclose a triangular and more restricted rimal space. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1678 |
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