mirachとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Medieval Latin mirac, mirach, from Arabic مَرَقّ‎ (maraqq, “delicate かつ sensible part of the venter”), from رَقَّ‎ (raqqa, “to be soft”).

名詞

mirach (複数形 mirachs)

1. (medicine, obsolete) The abdominal wall. [15th-17th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition I, section 2, member 5, subsection ii:

     Gordonius […] confirms as much, putting the “matter of melancholy sometimes in the stomach, liver, heart, brain, spleen, myrach, hypochondries, whenas the melancholy humour resides there, or the liver is not well cleansed from melancholy blood.”