| 单词 | st anthony's fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSt Anthony's fire 1. In the genitive, with of, and attributive, esp. in St Anthony's fire. Denoting any of various diseases or conditions of the skin or underlying soft tissues characterized by heat and redness, and often by rapid spread (cf. fire n. 14), spec. erysipelas or (in early use also) gangrene; (also) designating a case or individual lesion of such disease. Now historical.Now often identified as epidemic gangrenous ergotism, which is believed to have occurred in France and other parts of continental Europe at irregular intervals until the 19th cent., but there is little convincing contemporary evidence for use of the English name for this disease.For the semantic motivation of this sense see note in etymology at Anthony n., and cf. sense 2 at that entry. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > other diseases or conditions impetigo1398 deadingc1400 St Anthonyc1405 foulness1559 acrochordon1565 foulness1583 heat1597 bleach1601 Anthony's fire1609 desquamation1726 sivvens1762 erythema1778 rupia1813 morula1817 dermalgia1842 mycosis1846 cheloid1854 keloid1854 morule1857 kelis1864 dermatosis1866 epithelioma1872 vagabond's disease1876 vagabond's skin1876 dermatitis1877 erysipeloid1888 Ritter's disease1888 acanthosis nigricans1890 angiokeratoma1891 sunburn1891 porokeratosis1893 acrodermatitis1894 epidermolysis1894 keratolysis1895 dermographism1896 neurodermatitis1896 peau d'orange1896 X-ray dermatitis1897 dermatomyositis1899 papulo-erythema1899 pyodermia1899 tar acne1899 dermographia1900 radiodermatitis1903 poikiloderma1907 neurodermatosis1909 leishmanoid1922 razor burn1924 pyoderma1930 photodermatosis1931 photodermatitis1933 necrobiosis lipoidica1934 pyoderma gangrenosum1936 fassy1943 acrodermatitis enteropathica1945 chicken skin1946 nylon stocking dermatitis1947 Sézary('s) syndrome1953 pigskin1966 washerwoman's skin1981 strimmer rash1984 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) §353 Half the partie of hire pryuee membres ben corrupt by the fyr of Seint Antony or by cancre or othere swiche meschaunces. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 27v (MED) Estiomene is ysayd comonly þe fire of Seynt Antony or of Seynt Martialis [L. ignis sancti Anthonii aut sancti Marcialis]. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 338 I haue seyne þerof many membres ben broght into Seynt Antonyes euel and broken oute. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. A ij Sorell water slaketh St. Anthonys fyre. 1546 T. Phaer Bk. Children sig. Bb.viii In Greke herisipelas, and of the Latines Sacer ignis, our Englysshe women call it the fyre of Saynt Anthonye, or chingles, it is an inflammation of membres with excedyng burnynge and rednesse. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xii. 20 The greene leaues of Fole foote pounde with Hony, do cure and heale the hoate inflammation called Saint Anthonies fyre, and all other kindes of inflammation. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 311 The disease called Erysipelas,..commonly called S. Anthonies fyre. 1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 115 Symptoms of St. Anthony's fire appearing, she was let blood. ?1748 P. Blair Case Mr. Baker 29 The Confluent kind of Small Pox is an obstruction of finer Vessels, than in the Distinct kind; or a St. Anthonys Fire, than a Common Boil: And thence arises the difference in danger. 1773 W. Rowley Treat. Princ. Dis. Eyes 108 Her whole body was covered with large serpigenious eruptions, which her apothecary had called the scurvy; and the swelling in the face, the St. Anthony's fire. 1794 J. P. Andrews Hist. Great Brit. connected with Chronol. of Europe I. 115 Lorrain loses many of its inhabitants [in 1090] by a disease called the ‘feu sacreè [sic]’ or consecrated fire... This appears to have been what is now called St Anthony's fire. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 96/2 Among the miracles believed to have been wrought by his intercession, was the cure of the distemper called the sacred fire, since that time called St. Anthony's fire, and in modern days erysipelas. 1896 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Aug. 520/2 In the present work [sc. L'ergotisme: ignis sacer, ignis Sancti Antonii] Dr. Ehlers endeavours to show that the ignis sacer of the Middle Ages was gangrene, and that when it occurred in an epidemic form it was known as ‘St. Anthony's fire’, which was always due to ergotism. 1908 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 8 976 Erysipelas, otherwise known as rose, St. Anthony's fire, is recognized in two ways: traumatic,..or idiopathic. 1944 R. Winston & C. Winston tr. H. E. Jacob Six Thousand Years of Bread lxi. 151 There was St. Anthony's fire, the ergot poisoning which killed off hundreds of thousands in the rye lands of Europe. 2000 Clin. Infectious Dis. 31 735/2 Some names for infection refer directly to fire, such as ‘St. Anthony's fire’, which was a term for erysipelas. < as lemmas |
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