单词 | superfecundation |
释义 | superfecundationn. Physiology. Fertilization of two or more ova produced during the same ovulatory cycle by sperm introduced by different acts of coitus or mating (with one or more males); (also) fertilization of an abnormally or unusually large number of ova; an instance of this. Also occasionally: = superfetation n. 1. ΚΠ 1830 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 6 432 In the human subject, moreover, cases have occurred in which a woman has been delivered, at the same birth, of a child conceived of a white, and one of a black parent, proving beyond contradiction that superfecundation does sometimes occur. 1885 Med. News 22 Aug. 218/1 There exists a great weight of evidence in favor of superfecundation. Mares give birth simultaneously to horse and mule foals; bitches..throw young of different, so-called bastard forms. 1901 W. E. A. Wyman tr. M. G. De Bruin Bovine Obstetr. 45 By superfecundation is understood the fertilization of two or more eggs of one œstrum at short intervals; this making it possible that one ovum is fecundated by one bull and the other ovum by another bull. 1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors v. 96 Actemia..seduced Endymion and was punished for her early prudery by a truly god-like superfecundation; she became the mother of fifty daughters all at one time. 1973 Bull. Midwest Mod. Lang. Assoc. 6 109 She is another Eve-like figure..who becomes the mother of a Cain/Abel combination of black/white twins through the process of superfecundation and through the courtesy of co-genitors—her husband, white Mitchell Pierce, and her maid's friend, black Cooley Johnson. 2001 Guardian 29 Nov. ii. 15/2 Ovulating after a first conception is an extremely rare condition which is known technically as superfoetation, or superfecundation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1830 |
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