intortとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

intort (三人称単数 現在形 intorts, 現在分詞 intorting, 過去形および過去分詞形 intorted)

1. To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe, wind, or wring.
   • 1726, Homer, Alexander Pope (translator), The Odyssey of Homer, 2008, page 44,

     With reverend hand the king presents the gold, / Which round th′ intorted horns the gilder roll′d, / So wrought, as Pallas might with pride behold.

2. (medicine, ophthalmology) To twist inwards.
   • 2002, Sunita Agarwal, Athiya Agarwal, David J. Apple, Textbook of Ophthalmology, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, India, psge 338,

     If we tilt the head to the right, the right eye will intort and the left eye will extort. […] So, if the right eye intorts, it means the superiors in that eye (RSR かつ RSO) work and if the left eye extorts it means the inferiors of that eye (LIO かつ LIR) work.

   • 2003, Thomas Brandt, Vertigo: Its Multisensory Syndromes, page 194,

     For the right labyrinth, however, both vertical semicircular canals produce clockwise slow phases (ipsilateral eye intorts, contralateral eye extorts).

   • 2007, Kenneth Weston Wright, Color Atlas of Strabismus Surgery: Strategies and Techniques, page 185,

     Figure 18.12. The needles are withdrawn from the sclera, and the sutures are pulled to advance the anterior tendon laterally, while the eye is intorted by rotating it with the large hook.

   • 2011, Peter Urban, Louis R. Caplan, Brainstem Disorders, page 124,

     These conditions are reversed after every hemicycle, i.e. the previously higher intorted eye is then lowered and extorted, and the previously lowered extorted eye becomes higher and intorted (Fig. 3.7).

同意語

• (twist): contort, writhe

反意語

• (twist inwards): extort

アナグラム

• Triton, rottin', triton