单词 | achor |
释义 | † achorn. Medicine. Obsolete. A disease of the scalp, probably favus or some other form of dermatophytosis, characterized by the presence of small pustules, ulcers, and scabs; (also) a pustule or ulcer of this disease.In Old English in plural with singular agreement. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > ring-worm or favus achorOE scalled-head1340 motha1398 tinea1398 serpigoc1400 ringworma1425 scald1561 tetterworm1622 surpeguea1632 serpentine1639 scald head1673 favus1706 honeycomb scall1817 dhobie itch1890 trichophytosis1890 scaly ringworm1898 whitehead1911 athlete's foot1928 OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) clxxxiv. 232 Eac hyt afeormaþ ðone leahtor þe Grecas hostopyturas hatað, þæt ys scurf þæs heafdes, & eac þone þe hy achoras nemnað [?a1200 Harl. 6258B hi achoras nemneð], þæt ys sceb se foroft þæt heafod fexe bereafað. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Achores, rennyng sores in the head: a common disease among children.] 1585 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Health (new ed.) sig. B iij The Pustules called Achores or Tineae be engendred of a humore. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. xci. 147 It [sc. the roote of the garden Lillie] consumeth or scoureth away the vlcers of the head called Achores. 1662 Tractate Cure Infants ii. iii, in Culpeper's Directory for Midwives: 2nd Pt. 235 The Achores are only in the head, but they are cured alike. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Achor, a disease possessing the hairy scalp or musculous skin of the head, and eating therein like a moth; it is commonly called in English, the Scald. 1714 D. Turner De Morbis Cutaneis ii. 147 For the ulcerous Scab, termed Achor and Favus, he proposes..this Unguent. 1772 N. D. Falck Treat. Venereal Dis. v. 155 In the forehead, yellow scales will appear, and even sometimes an achor all over the head. 1796 R. White Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) 57 The moist ulcerations of the scalp called achores, are most probably of the same tribe. 1833 R. Dunglison New Dict. Med. Sci. II. 204/1 Porrigo Larvalis... It commonly appears..in an eruption of numerous, minute, whitish achores on a red surface. 1868 Lancet 7 Nov. 606/2 Hebra holds..that the pustular affections of the skin described by authors under the names impetigo, ecthyma, porrigo, achor, &c., have no existence as independent diseases. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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