单词 | villous |
释义 | villousadj. 1. Anatomy. Covered with numerous thick-set, slender projections resembling short hairs: a. Of the inner coat of the stomach or intestines. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [adjective] > villi villousc1400 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 169 Þe stomak & þe guttis is ordeyned a skyn, þat is clepid þe siphac; & is a syngle skyn & is not villous. 1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments i. 4 The quick sensation of the inward villous Coat of the Stomach. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. vii. 184 Either it [the stomach] is too thin and weak..or the inner villous Membrane is worn off. 1770 W. Hewson in Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 210 The lacteals in the cod..are remarkable for having a beautiful net-work of vessels between the muscular and villous coat of the intestines. 1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion i. iv. 89 On examining the surface of the villous coat with a magnifying glass. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 183 There is thus a great contrast between its interior and the villous internal surface of the small intestine. b. In general use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adjective] ciliated1753 ciliate1760 villous1764 mastigopod1890 pelurious1922 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind ii. §1 The membrana pituitaria, and the olfactory nerves, which are distributed to the villous parts of this membrane. 1792 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 82 179 The tongue itself is extremely villous, having some very long villi at the point, which act, I conceive, somewhat like capillary tubes. 1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 555 The surface of the ciliary processes is reticulated and villous. 1846 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. 192 The villous and vascular condition of a Mucous membrane. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 124 The pharynx has a coarsely villous exterior. 2. Of the nature of villi. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adjective] > of nature of villus villous1664 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 22 An Appendent Proboscis or Trunk, consisting of many villous filaments in figure of a Cone. 1854 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. iv. 188 Rokitansky describes a variety of cancer, which he calls villous, from its consisting of a kind of delicate fibrous stalk branching at its end into villous processes. 1873 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. 44 The weak new vessels..in certain vascular cysts, or villous processes. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. i. iii. 93 Fungous, papular, villous, or cystic formations. 3. Of animals: Hairy, furry. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a coat > hairy, furry, or woolly pileda1475 villous1661 woolly1781 comous1877 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B Horses have most haire upon the mane, lions upon their shoulders,..and the hare is most villous; in all, they grow thick. 4. a. Botany. Of parts of plants: Thickly covered with long soft hairs. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [adjective] > having hair beardedc1450 downy1551 cottoned1578 friezed1578 maned1578 woolly1578 hairy1597 bristle-pointed1601 comous1657 fimbrious1657 tomentous1657 shagged1671 tomentose1698 crinated1724 villose1727 hispid1753 pubescent1760 setose1760 villous1766 lashed1776 silky1776 strigous1776 sericeous1777 awny1786 awned1787 strigose1793 shaggy1796 stupose1799 thready1804 feather-headed1821 setous1822 aristate1829 filamentous1835 fimbriate1836 puberulent1841 puberulous1841 sericated1848 barbate1853 strigillose1857 fimbrilliferous1866 ciliolate1870 fimbrillose1884 strigulated1899 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 444 The flowers..are succeeded by a swelling, villous pod. 1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. Families of Plants I. 41 Stigmas two, villous on the side. 1808 W. Roxburgh in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 8 500 Leaves alternate,..smooth above, villous underneath. 1844 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) 5 18 Its petals being far less taper-pointed, and not villous. 1881 Gardeners' Chron. 16 780 The whole plant is more or less villous. b. Consisting of villi. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adjective] > of nature of villus > consisting of villi villous1821 microvillar1964 microvillous1965 1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. (new ed.) I. 37 The lower leaves..invested beneath with a villous pubescence. Derivatives ˈvillously adv. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adverb] villously1870 shaggily1891 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 429 Empty glumes villously ciliate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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