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单词 acervulus
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acervulusn.

Brit. /əˈsəːvjᵿləs/, U.S. /əˈsərvjələs/
Inflections: Plural acervuli.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin acervulus.
Etymology: Originally < post-classical Latin acervulus (in acervulus cerebri ( N. Lisignolo Resp. dissertatio inauguralis anatomica de lapillis vel prope vel intra glandulam pinealem sitis, sive de acervulo cerebri (1785)) < acervulus small heap or collection (1686 or earlier; < classical Latin acervus heap, of unknown origin + -ulus -ulus suffix) + classical Latin cerebrī , genitive singular of cerebrum cerebrum n.). In sense 2 < scientific Latin acervulus (1810 or earlier), specific use of post-classical Latin acervulus.
1. Anatomy. More fully acervulus cerebri: a collection of small calcified concretions situated within or near the pineal body; = brain sand n. at brain n. Compounds 2. In later use also: an individual concretion of this kind.
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medulla?a1425
pith1594
acervulus cerebri1791
brain sand1831
oleophosphoric acid1839
wetware1963
1791 W. Vaughan Expos. Princ. Anat. & Physiol. II. 46 Near the base of this gland, or within it, from the fourteenth year, is a little heap of stones..; the larger stones are generally in the middle surrounded by the smaller, so that it is properly enough called Acervulus.
1800 A. Fyfe Compend. Anat. Human Body for Use Students II. iv. 22 Near, or in the Substance of the Pineal Gland, small Calcareous Concretions are sometimes found, called, by Soemmerring, Acervulus Cerebri, from their being generally found collected in a heap.
1839 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 7 505 If the globules of the acervulus be subjected to the action of muriatic acid, carbonic acid is evolved.
1882 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 9) II. 327 The follicles [of the pineal]..often contain..much gritty calcareous matter (acervulus cerebri, brain sand), composed of microscopic particles.
1970 T. S. Leeson & C. R. Leeson Histology (ed. 2) xvii. 414/1 Acervuli (brain sand or corpora arenacea) are concretions which appear mainly in the capsule and septa.
2005 Jrnl. Neurol. Sci. 238 Suppl. S495/1 Histological methods..were used to study epiphysis morphology and distribution of the brain sand (corpora arenacea, acervulus).
2. Mycology. In certain fungi pathogenic to plants: a flat, typically round mass of hyphae bearing conidiophores which is produced below the epidermis of the host plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of > cells and tissue
chive1721
spawn1731
mushroom spawn1753
volva1753
ring1777
veil1777
curtain1796
wrapper1796
fungin1813
subiculum1821
cortina1832
velum1832
mycelium1836
uterus1836
gleba1847
hypostroma1855
sulcus1856
rhizopod1859
tigellule1860
trichophore1860
hypha1866
hypothecium1866
rhizopodium1866
annulus1871
capillitium1871
acervulus1872
weft1875
capsule1883
clamp-connection1887
periphysis1887
chain gemma1893
trumpet hypha1900
metula1915
monokaryon1935
1872 W. A. Leighton Lichen-flora (ed. 2) p. xvi Acervuli, little heaps or clusters.
1898 Bot. Gaz. 26 82 On the margin of the spots the acervuli become confluent, often forming a close ring surrounding the less gregarious acervuli of the central portion.
1925 C. Chupp Man. Veg. Garden Dis. ii. 17 The parasite, Colleotrichum lindemuthianum..is one of a large group of fungi characterized by its shallow open fruit-body known as an acervulus.
1947 C. E. Skinner et al. Henrici's Molds, Yeasts, & Actinomycetes (ed. 2) v. 96 The third order, the Moniliales,..contains the remaining forms, whose conidiophores are produced neither in pycnidia nor upon acervuli.
1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) iv. 363/2 These mats, called acervuli, can often be seen as flat, disc-shaped cushions on host plants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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