meseraicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Late Latin meseraicus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μεσαραϊκός ‎(mesaraïkós) (in Galen), from μεσάραιον ‎(mesáraion, “mesaraeum”).

形容詞

meseraic ‎(comparative more meseraic, superlative most meseraic)

1. (anatomy, obsolete) Mesenteric.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Bk.I, New York 2001, pp.147-8:

     Blood is a hot, sweet, temperate, red humour, prepared in the meseraic veins, and made of the most temperate parts of the chylus in the liver […].

名詞

meseraic ‎(複数形 meseraics)

1. (anatomy, obsolete) A mesenteric vein.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:

     it entreth not the veins with those electuaries, wherein it is mixed: but taketh leave of the permeant parts, at the mouths of the Meseraicks, or Lacteal Vessels, and accompanieth the inconvertible portion unto the siege.