| 单词 | tight-lacing liver |
| 释义 | > as lemmastight-lacing liver tight-lacing liver n. Medicine (now historical) a liver with an abnormal shape attributed to the pressure of a tight-laced corset; cf. tight-lace adj. at Derivatives. ΚΠ 1880 Practitioner Jan. 11 I am not prepared to assert that marked instances of ‘tight-lacing liver’ are likely again to become frequent. 1908 H. W. Wilson Movable Kidney 48 It [sc. the kidney] was kept in this position by the very pronounced tight-lacing liver. 2001 V. Steele Corset: Cultural Hist. iii. 74 The many stories of ‘tight-lacing liver’ seem to be based on a misunderstanding of anatomy. < as lemmas |
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