| 单词 |
orificial |
| 释义 |
oriˈficial, a.
[f. L. ōrifici-um opening, orifice + -al1. (But the word meant was perh. orificall.)]
†1. Mouthmaking; hence high-sounding, bombastic. Obs. rare—1.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 69 O orificiall rethorike, wipe thy euerlasting mouth.
2. Of or pertaining to an orifice or orifices; in Med. used spec. with reference to a theory that many pathological conditions arise from irritation of the orifices of the rectum and urogenital system and can be relieved by surgery or other treatment of these areas.
1887E. H. Pratt Orificial Surg. i. 14, I believe that all forms of chronic diseases have one common predisposing cause, and that cause is a nerve-waste occasioned by orificial irritation at the lower openings of the body. 1926Spectator 25 Sept. 473/1 With a fine inconsistency, they belong to societies of so-called ‘orificial surgery’ and follow strange cults of electrical healing. 1960[see clitoridectomy]. 1973Biol. Abstr. LV. 6287/1 This..revealed an orificial pulmonary stenosis which clinical investigation had failed to detect. |
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