单词 | zooplastic |
释义 | zooplasticadj.ΚΠ a1855 C. B. Mansfield Theory of Salts (1865) ii. iii. 136 (note) It is most likely that under the Zooplastic forces of the vegetal world this synthesis really takes place. 1861 R. Grattan Consider. Human Mind ix. 126 Vitality, Zooism, or the Zooplastic principle, would seem to be connected with some peculiar modification of matter. 2. With reference to sculpture, art, etc.: that represents or seeks to represent living beings or animals. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [adjective] > specific subject equestrial1556 marinea1701 equestrian1711 scenic1835 zooplastic1872 1872 J. Ruskin Aratra Pentelici ii, in Wks. III. 31 The great mimetic instinct underlies all such purpose [sc. the fashioning of figures of living creatures]; and is zooplastic, life-shaping. 1977 Sewanee Rev. 85 517 Gaudier..warped stone into a new topology that Ruskin would have called zooplastic. 2012 T. Kosmatka Games 181 Indian designs, pastels and browns and pinks, alternately anthropomorphic or zooplastic. 3. Designating tissue transplanted from an animal to a human recipient, and the action of transplanting tissue in this way. Cf. xenograft n. at xeno- comb. form , xenotransplant n., xenotransplantation n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > transplanting and grafting operations > [adjective] > between individuals of different species zooplastic1888 heteroplastic1898 heterotransplanted1920 heterogenous1939 heterografted1961 1888 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 Feb. 367/2 (heading) Zooplastic grafts. 1929 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 6 33/1 The inherent difficulties encountered in heteroplastic and zooplastic grafting of other organs does not offer much encouragement when applied to the parathyroid glands. 1969 Acta Neurochirurgica 20 59 We have eliminated these hazards by using a heterologous zooplastic graft, made of calf bone. 2008 S. E. Lederer Flesh & Blood vii. 198 When Pope Pius XII addressed the Italian Association of Donors of the Cornea in 1956, he distinguished between permissible and morally objectionable ‘zooplastic transplants’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1855 |
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