| 单词 | bone-thinning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone-thinning b. Forming adjectives, as bone-building, bone-forming, bone-piercing, bone-thinning, etc.See also bone-setting adj., bone-throwing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [adjective] > decayed or decaying rarefactive?a1425 rarefied1523 cariez'd1634 bonea1639 cariated1665 carious1676 cariose1763 ossivorous1842 osteoporotic1865 osteolytic1875 porotic1883 caried1884 Albers-Schönberg1922 osteodystrophic1925 a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) xxxii. 127 The bone-rotting vice of envy. 1657 A. B. tr. J. Buxtorf Jewish Synagogue xxv. 248 For soft feather and down-bed they embrace some bone pinching mattress. 1838 Botanico-Med. Recorder (Columbus, Ohio) 14 July 334/2 He has renounced..the use of the bone-rotting, flesh-consuming minerals, falsely called remedies, which generate cramps and convulsions. 1872 Standard 9 Jan. 5/5 Even these showers have brought with them none of that bleak, bone-piercing chill which winter rains usually involve. 1900 Ballarat (Victoria) Star 12 Sept. 4/3 We..had a lift in a rambling, bone-jarring, ‘one hoss shay’ kind of machine. 1923 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 May 887/2 It does not follow that because the blood has a normal calcium content the whole of it..is available for bone-building purposes. 1947 Arch. Pathol. 43 75 Marble bone disease is due to..an unknown agent which damages the bone-forming blastema at the beginning of the second period of development of each individual bone. 1961 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 76 974/1 Osteoporosis, a bone-thinning disease marked by excessive calcium loss. 2014 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 16 June Their tools..[are] syringes, bone-piercing needles, catheters. < as lemmas |
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