单词 | rubefaction |
释义 | rubefactionn. 1. Medicine. Reddening or redness of the skin, esp. as produced by a rubefacient; the action of using a rubefacient; an instance of this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > [noun] > application of rubefacient rubefaction?a1425 rubefacience1804 the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > [noun] > making red rubefaction?a1425 redding1503 rubrification?1541 rubrication1658 rubification1661 rubricating1705 rubefacience1804 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 109 To þis entensioun ar made ventosez, rubifaccionz [?c1425 Paris redenesses; L. rubificationes], and vesiccacionz with alleis..and cantarides. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Rubefaction, a making red. 1787 J. Brown Observ. Princ. Old Syst. Physic p. lxiii Every diminution of the mass of the other fluids, as leeching, cupping, scarifying, expectorating, sternutation, rubefaction, have been constantly employed. 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica vi. 190 Horse-radish..applied to the skin it produces rubefaction, pain, and all the symptoms of inflammation. 1854 E. Mayhew Dogs 67 Even though no apparent rubifaction may be discerned, the deeper seated structures are apt to be affected. 1901 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) III. 304/2 The irritation produced by counter-irritants varies in degree, and the difference is expressed by the terms rubefaction, vesication and pustulation, according as they simply redden the skin or produce a blister or a pustular eruption. 1915 B. C. Gile Nose, Throat & Ear vii. 77 We regard the rubefaction, etc., as evidences of hyperæmia on the surface. 2004 A. Bromfield tr. B. Akunin Murder on Leviathan (2005) 5 Certain typical indications (pinhole pupils, suppressed breathing, cold, clammy skin, rubefaction of the lips and earlobes) indicated a presumptive diagnosis of morphine poisoning. ΚΠ 1843 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 207 Their researches into these phænomena led the authors to investigate also the cause of the rubefaction of water. 1874 Sci. Rec. 470 Dr. N. Joly communicates..the following interesting details regarding his investigations into the phenomenon of accidental coloration or rather rubefaction of water in the salt marshes of Villeneuve. 3. Geology and Soil Science. Reddening of rock or soil due to the deposition and oxidation of iron compounds during prolonged weathering; the process by which such reddening is produced. ΚΠ 1895 Amer. Geologist 16 123 Among the secondary mineralogical changes the author mentions rubifaction, serpentinization and amphibolization. 1935 Geogr. Jrnl. 86 168 Surely it is begging the question to say that terra rossa is formed by ‘laterisation’, and that black earth (chernozium) by ‘rubefaction’, without giving further explanation. 1993 Sci. Amer. Mar. 77/3 Those signs of usage come in three broad forms: light accumulations of soot, deposits of charcoal and reddening of the rock itself, a process known as rubefaction. 2005 R. J. Schaetzl & S. Anderson Soils viii. 168/2 Color is quickly changed under different oxidizing or reducing conditions, by translocation of clay–humus complexes or salts, and by melanization and rubefaction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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