| 单词 | caustic arrow |
| 释义 | > as lemmascaustic arrow caustic arrow n. [after French flèche caustique (1858)] Surgery see quot. 1890. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > corrosive or caustic > [noun] potential cauterya1400 corrosivec1400 corsiec1450 caustic1582 corsive1593 corrodent1614 pyrotic1634 escharotic1655 scarotique1673 cautery1689 diabrotic1775 caustic arrow1860 catheretic1887 1858 Med. Times & Gaz. 23 Oct. 428/2 The caustic is cut into little pointed laths, very like our vaccine points. They are not placed circularly around the base of the tumour, but parallel to each other over the whole of its free surface, so that its interior consists of a kind of bundle of caustic arrows, between the interstices of which the tissues are reduced to great thinness, and are rapidly destroyed.] 1860 R. Druitt Princ. & Pract. Mod. Surg. (rev ed.) p. xvii Introduction of conical caustic arrows for circular cauterization. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 384 A tumour around the anus was removed by the insertion of caustic arrows. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. I Caustic arrows,..small, pointed cylinders or cones made of chloride-of-zinc paste or other caustics, intended for introduction into the substance of morbid growths. 1911 Amer. Jrnl. Clin. Med. 18 1166/1 All of us have seen instances of women with a tumor in the breast..who have suffered the tortures of the damned for weeks and weeks after the use of Vienna paste or plasters or caustic ‘arrows’. < as lemmas |
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