单词 | sanctorian |
释义 | Sanctorianadj. Of or pertaining to Sanctorius, who made experiments and calculations on insensible perspiration by means of a ‘statical chair’. Sanctorian perspiration n. insensible perspiration, first discovered by Sanctorius. Sanctorian table n. a register of the quantities of perspiration, etc.For earlier references to the experiments of Sanctorius (not containing this adjective) see R. Boyle Usef. Exper. Nat. Philos. (1663) ii. iv. 116 and J. Addison Spectator (1711) No. 25 ⁋2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [noun] Sanctorian perspiration1740 perspirables1797 the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [noun] > register of Sanctorian table1740 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen p. liii To try, by a Sanctorian Chair, the Quantity and Quality of those Foods that perspire the most and soonest. 1744 tr. H. Boerhaave Acad. Lect. Theory Physic III. 306 Through these [vessels] is perpetually transpired a very subtle Humour from every Point of the Body, called from its Inventor the Sanctorian Perspiration. 1745 J. Lining in Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 318 Two Columns in my Sanctorian Tables, where I have daily supposed the Ingesta to be 100 Ounces. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 111 From this experiment also, the learned may gather upon what a weak foundation the whole doctrine of the Sanctorian perspiration is built. 1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 842/1 Sanctorius..made lengthened experiments on perspiration. The insensible perspiration has..been termed ‘Sanctorian’ in honour of him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1740 |
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