malacia

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Abnormal softening of organs or tissues of the human body. countable,uncountable
    — As soon, namely, as a process of this sort sets in in a compound organ, as for example, a muscle, a palpable myo-malacia is certainly produced when all the muscular elements at a given point are at once affected; but it happens far more frequently that, in the course of a muscle, only a comparatively small number of primitive fasciculi are affected, whilst the others remain almost intact.
  2. An abnormal craving for certain types of food. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — The least abnormal condition appears to be the malacia, or desire for highly spiced or acid foods that are sometimes seen in chlorotic girls and in pregnant women.

词形变化

malacias plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bronchomalacia cardiomalacia cerebromalacia chondromalacia craniomalacia encephalomalacia hepatomalacia keratomalacia laryngomalacia leukoencephalomalacia leukomalacia malacic myelomalacia odontomalacia osteomalacia polioencephalomalacia scleromalacia tracheomalacia

词源

From Latin malacia, from Ancient Greek μαλακία (malakía, “softness, sickness”). By surface analysis, malac- (“soft”) + -ia (“disease”).
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