单词 | cameration |
释义 | camerationn. a. Architecture. Vaulting, arching; an example of this. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > vaulting voisoura1400 vousing1412 embowing1430 cope1484 vaulting1513 embow1548 embowment1626 concameration1644 cameration1664 vaulture1692 coving1703 1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 131 But if Vaults are made, two Arches intersect, which is the strongest manner of Cameration. 1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Cameration, Vaulting or Arching. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Cameration, a vaulting or arching. b. Medicine. The formation of a skull fracture in which the bones or bone fragments appear to form an arch. Cf. camerated adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1678 J. Browne Compl. Disc. Wounds xxvi. 145 And these are the differences of Fractures which are of the Head, some of which are accounted simple Fractures, as these three, Contusio, Rima, Sedes; others more compound, as these 3, Depressio, Cameratio, Excisio.] 1719 Glossographia Anglicana Nova (ed. 2) Cameration, in Surgery, is when a Bone in the Scull by a Blow is left suspended like an Arch. 1881 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Cameration, synonymous with camarosis. 2. Zoology and Palaeontology. The state of a shell or other structure of being divided into chambers or partitioned. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > separation or partition mediastinum?a1425 mediastine?c1425 septum1543 paries1694 interseptum1753 cameration1863 abstriction1877 abjunction1887 macroseptum1904 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell > division into chambers cameration1863 1863 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1862 408 On a similar cameration of the septum of the ventral valve of some Cyrtiæ the genus Cyrtina has been founded. 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals xii. 658 The cameration of the skeleton. 1924 C. O. Dunbar in M. R. Thorpe Org. Adaptation to Environment vi. 198 After starting their growth with the cameration posterior to the body,..these cephalopods later begin to form incomplete ‘saddle-like’ septa. 2004 Rev. Palaeobot. & Palynol. 130 281/2 There is a distinct gap between the proximal and distal faces of the pseudozona suggesting that at least some cameration was primary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1664 |
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