| 单词 |
hippocampus |
| 释义 |
hippocampus|hɪpəʊˈkæmpəs|
Pl. -i.
[a. late L. hippocampus, a. Gr. ἱππόκαµπος, f. ἵππο-ς horse + κάµπος sea-monster.]
1. Mythol. A sea-horse, having two fore-feet, and the body ending in a dolphin's or fish's tail, represented as drawing the car of Neptune and other sea-deities.
1606Drummond of Hawthornden Let. Wks. (1711) 232 Stately pageants..that of Cheapside was of Neptune on a hippocampus, with his Tritons and Næreides. 1840Hood Kilmansegg, Marriage xxviii, Hearty as hippocampus.
2. Ichthyol. A genus of small fishes, having a head shaped somewhat like that of a horse; the sea-horse.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 353 The fishe called Hippocampus, is a present and sovereigne remedie, against the byting of a madde dogge. 1863Miss Sewell Chr. Names II. 279 The quaint little horny hippocampus.
3. Anat. Each of two elongated eminences (hippocampus major and hippocampus minor) on the floor of each lateral ventricle of the brain; so called from their supposed resemblance to the fish (sense 2).
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hippocampa..in Anatomy. the Processes of Channels of the upper or foremost Ventricles of the Brain. 1863Sat. Rev. 606/2 A purely unscientific person..capable of going to his grave without the remotest notion whether he had a hippocampus or not, if Mr. Owen and Mr. Huxley had never discussed the subject. |
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