单词 | sloughing |
释义 | sloughingn. 1. a. Pathology. The process of forming a slough. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > slough slough1513 eschar1543 sloughiness1788 sloughing1800 sphacelus1881 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 548 On a subsidence of the swelling, there was a sloughing. 1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. i. v. 67 When sloughing and ulceration have actually taken place, some surgeons apply lint. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 289 After first week there was some sloughing about amputation wound. b. attributive in sloughing process, sloughing state. ΚΠ 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 454 Their gangrenous sloughs once removed, and the sloughing process..corrected. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 473 The sloughing and gangrenous states. 2. The action or process of casting a slough; exuviation. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > casting or shedding part of body sloughing1835 exuviation1836 ecdysis1863 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 238 When the sloughing process begins for shifting their skins. 1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos viii. 216 A great many periodical sloughings of the crust [of a crab] must have occurred. 1897 G. C. Bateman Vivarium 180 The sloughing of a Snake is a very interesting operation to watch. 3. The collapse of soil or rock into a hole or down a bank. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > dislodged soil slide1841 sloughing1897 soliflual1941 1897 W. Starling Floods of Mississippi i. 14/1 There is no incident..more alarming..than the sloughing or slipping of the inside slope of a levee. 1948 Terzaghi & Peck Soil Mech. in Engin. Pract. viii. 336 To prevent sloughing of the toes of the slopes, the small quantity of water that flows through the gaps between the wells is removed. 1957 Nature 13 July 100 (heading) Vernal sloughing of sludge deposits in a sewage effluent channel. 1972 L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations vi. 90 On completion of drilling, the hole is normally filled with gel-water mud to prevent sloughing and fill. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2019). sloughingadj. 1. Pathology. Developing or forming a slough or sloughs. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > slough sloughyc1720 sloughing1813 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 649 The too-long-continued use of stimulating remedies in sloughing burns. 1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 71 The sloughing ulceration in acute dysentery. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 434 Charcoal poultices..usually ordered for sloughing wounds. 2. Of soil or rock: collapsing, sliding. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > collapsing or sliding sloughing1974 1974 P. L. Moore et al. Drilling Pract. Man. iii. 46 It has been common practice to reduce water-loss when sloughing shale becomes a problem. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1800adj.1813 |
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