单词 | tuberculoid |
释义 | tuberculoidadj. 1. Medicine. a. Resembling (that of) tuberculosis. ΚΠ 1830 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 7 123 The manner of decay, the appearance of the cavern, the qualities of the matter, and the symptoms during life, pointed out the local disease as slow tuberculoid abscess of the liver on a great scale. 1879 Lancet 15 Feb. 222/1 By arrest in the lungs they give rise to tuberculoid disease—at all events, an infiltration resembling miliary tuberculosis. 1903 Pract. Med. Ser. Year Bks. X. 37 Necropsy [in a case of blastomycosis] revealed lungs riddled with miliary abscesses and tuberculoid lesions;..the liver extensively filled with miliary abscesses and tuberculoid nodules. 1974 Trypanosomiasis & Leishmaniasis: Ciba Found. Symp. 1973 163 In localized forms we often saw epithelioid or tuberculoid nodules, surrounded by a thick infiltration of lymphoid cells. 2005 Current Diagnostic Pathol. 11 224/2 Tuberculoid epithelioid granulomas may or may not be present. b. Designating a form of leprosy that is characterized by the presence of granulomatous lesions similar to those of tuberculosis; of or relating to this.In tuberculoid leprosy the number of skin lesions is usually small, and nerve involvement is slight. It is the form seen in persons who develop a strong cell-mediated immune response to leprosy bacilli ( Mycobacterium leprae). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > leprosy > type of leonine1813 ophidian1915 tuberculoid1921 histoid1960 1921 Arch. Dermatol. & Syphilol. 4 828 (heading) A contribution to our knowledge of tuberculoid leprosy. 1938 Leprosy Rev. 9 20 No progress can be made..unless it is frankly admitted that at the Manila Conference [in 1931] the significance and extent of the tuberculoid phases of leprosy were not fully appreciated. 1938 Leprosy Rev. 9 20 Anaesthesia is by no means the sole preserve of tuberculoid leprosy. 1948 E. Muir Man. Leprosy ix. 49 The term ‘tuberculoid’ is given on account of the histological resemblance of this type to chronic lesions in tuberculosis. It is a somewhat unfortunate term, as it is often confused with ‘tubercular’, the word formerly used for the severe form, now called lepromatous. 1987 M. F. R. Waters in D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. v. 305/2 Leprosy bacilli are very scanty in tuberculoid lesions. 2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health ii. 274 Tuberculoid leprosy is commonly self-healing, and damage to the peripheral nerves is usually limited. 2. Zoology and Botany. Resembling a tubercle (tubercle n. 1); tuberculiform. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [adjective] > rounded projection nodous1646 tuberous1650 papillar1651 verrucous1656 capitate1661 clavate1661 papillary1667 warty1693 tuberculated1696 papillous1718 tubercular1719 clavated1728 tuberculous1732 mammillated1744 tubercled1746 papillose1752 torulous1752 tuberculose1752 tuberculate1777 tubercle-like1792 mastoid1800 tuberculiferous1802 ventricose1804 torulose1806 papillated?a1808 tuberculiform1817 bullated1822 nodulous1822 tuberiform1822 nodulated1824 papilliform1824 mammular1826 papilliferous1826 nodulose1828 knuckled1842 mamelonated1843 tuberculoid1853 papillate1857 mammilloid1859 tuberculosquamous1866 bosselated1873 papulate1876 bulbar1878 tubero-cystic1879 mammulose1889 1853 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 10 336 It [sc. the basal ridge of the last tooth] is much thicker..and is divided by a fissure into two unequal tuberculoid portions. 1865 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 13 214 The oval surfaces of the scuta are covered with convex, obtuse tuberculoid scales. 1920 J. J. Taubenhaus Dis. Greenhouse Crops xxv. 325 The pyenidia are tuberculoid in shape, scattered, black. 1938 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 64 183 Postscutellum with two small tuberculoid spines. 1960 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 79 15 The sides of this sub-triangular impression elevated and densely setose to form twin tuberculoid areas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1830 |
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