omphalo-
combining form
- relating to the navel表示“脐的”：
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omphalocele.
词源
from Greek omphalos 'navel'.
1892 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,*Omphalectomy, excision of the umbilicus.
1894 Brit. Med. Jrnl. Epit. 3 Feb. 18/1.
1876 Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (rev. ed. ) 722/2*Omphalitis.
1897 Trans. Amer. PediatricSoc. IX. 208Of the remaining cases..one..was due to pyæmia following omphalitis in the newly-born.
1974 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. ii. xlv. 22/1The appearance of non-specific signs of infection, whether or not there is liver enlargement, jaundice or evidence of omphalitis, is always an indication for culture of the umbilicus and the blood. [ in the newborn]
1706 Phillips, *Omphalocele, or Hernia Umbilicalis.
1836–9 Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 710/1Affected with omphalocele.
1652 Gaule Magastrom. 165*Omphelomancy, by the navell. [ divining]
1892 Syd. Soc. Lex.
1892 19th Cent. Jan. 24The *Omphalopsychics, with whom hypnotic reverie is obtained by steadily gazing at the umbilicus.
1882 ‘Basil’ Love the Debt xliii,Bob has become an *Omphalopsychyte. Those thrice accursed cartoons had brought on Stomach on the brain.
1727–41 Chambers Cycl. ,*Omphalopter, or *Omphaloptic, in optics, a glass that is convex on both sides, popularly called a convex lens.
1819 H. Busk Dessert 457The omphaloptic stud.
1931 T. H. Pear Voice & Personality iv. 35The psychologist, unless mental *omphaloscopy contents him, must go and fetch his material.
1960 Times 30 Nov. 7/2 In particular he made fun of ‘omphaloscopy’—gazing at the navel.
1828–32 Webster, *Omphalotomy.
1857 in Mayne Expos. Lex.
1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves v. iv. 366The flesh dies... And there's an end of your *omphaloskepsis.
1983 Verbatim Summer 23/1 Presumably, one arrives at game theory through omphaloskepsis.
c1915 A. Huxley Let. (1969) 78You must admit that no *omphaloskeptic, nay, not Plotinus, could have so utterly realized the Infinite as at moments one did to night.
1978 Maledicta 1977 I. 268 Please continue your piperitious, planiloquent polemics against those *omphaloskeptical, onychophagic, uxoravalent, philalethic..acritochromatic, and tragomaschaliac pseudoacademicians.
1988 National Rev. (U.S. ) 30 Sept. 56/3Everyone from Borromini to Wright..has had his convoluted theosophical and omphaloskeptical theories and convictions.
omphalo-
before vowels omphal-, word-forming element meaning "navel," from Greek omphalos (see omphalos).
ORIGIN: Greek , combining form of omphalos navel: see -o-
omphalo-
combining form
see omphal-
see omphal-
omphalo-omphal-
Prefix
- Relating to the navel.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel”)