atheroid
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Shaped like an ear of grain.
— This genus occurs from the Silurian to the close of the Paleozoic, and is common from the middle Devonian up; it is characterized by its concavo-convex form, and the spines along the hinge-line; aa, Seminula argentea (Shep.), a spire-bearing, atheroid shell, one of the commonest Carbonifersous species; […]
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Characterized by writhing and twisting.
— Hands, in this case also, are subject to atrophy of groups of the intrinisc muscles, and exhibit the atheroid movements of the fingers when lying unused, and the "claw-like" configuration when about to pick up an object.
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From or similar to an atheroma (any sense).
— The atheroid plaque in the diabetic subject contains more cholesterol ester and phospholipid, but less neutral fat, than that of the non-diabetic individual.
词源
词源 1
Ancient Greek ἀθήρ (athḗr, “beard or ear of grain”) + -oid.
词源 2
From Ancient Greek ἄθετος (áthetos, “not fixed”), itself from τίθημι (títhēmi) + -oid
词源 3
atheroma + -oid
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