单词 | subsultus tendinum |
释义 | subsultus tendinumn. Medicine. Now chiefly historical or archaic. Twitching of muscles (and their tendons), esp. of the hands and wrist, seen esp. in the late stages of typhoid and typhus fever; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1682 Let. 27 Feb. in R. Boyle Experimenta & Observationes Physicæ (1691) 96 I have employed Ens Veneris for the removal of a Subsultus Tendinum, in a Person dangerously Sick of a Febris Petechialis. 1686 G. Harvey Conclave of Physicians (ed. 2) ii. viii. 90 Uterin Vapours..was judged not only to infest the Lungs, but the Brain also, whence proceeded that vacillation of Mind, little Cramps all over, and (which is a species also of Convulsion) a subsultus tendinum. 1697 R. Boulton Treat. Reason Muscular Motion 113 The Subsultus Tendinum in Fevers are caused, when the Spirits being too much exalted, leap irregularly out of the Brain. 1717 D. Turner Siphylis ii. 208 Her Forehead cover'd with a cold Sweat, a formicating low Pulse with Subsultus Tendinum, and Sposms [sic] upon her Jaws. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 68 There was no subsultus tendinum, or any visible alteration in its breathing. 1876 J. R. Cormack Clin. Stud. II. 341 From her extreme restlessness, jacitation, and subsultus tendinum, it is impossible to take the pulse, respiration, or temperature. 1914 J. C. McClure Handbk. Fevers v. 86 Low delirium, with some tremor, and subsultus tendinum may be present. 1972 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 62 94/1 (note) Subsultus tendinum, carpholalgia, and related symptoms here described by Maurus were regarded by the ancients as serious portents of agonal decerebration. 1994 P. O'Brian Commodore (1996) ix. 230 Deglutination becomes difficult, subsultus tendinum comes on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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