| 单词 |
prefrontal |
| 释义 |
prefrontal, a. (n.) Anat. and Zool.|priːˈfrɒntəl|
Also præ-.
[f. pre- A., B. + L. frons, front- forehead + -al1, or f. pre- + frontal.]
A. adj.
a. Situated in front of the frontal bone of the skull.
b. Situated in the fore part of the frontal lobe of the brain.
1854Owen in Orr's Circ. Sc., Org. Nat. I. 194 The..prefrontal and nasal bones. 1888Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. CLXXIX. 3 (heading) Results of experiments upon the prefrontal region of the hemisphere. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 273 The frontal lobe as so defined must be divided into a prefrontal and a postfrontal area. Ibid. 738 That part of the brain which is probably most intimately associated with psychical processes—the præfrontal area. 1902Daily Chron. 22 May 3/4 The general consensus of opinion localises what we term ‘mind’ in the pre-frontal lobes of the brain.
c. prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal lobotomy, lobotomy of the prefrontal part of the brain.
1936, etc. [see lobotomy]. 1937, etc. [see leucotomy].
B. n. (ellipt. for prefrontal bone.) A portion of the ethmoid, which forms a distinct bone in some reptiles, batrachians, and fishes.
1854Owen in Orr's Circ. Sc., Org. Nat. I. 193 There is a distinct, oval, articular surface near the anterior median angle of each frontal to which the prefrontal is attached. Ibid. 194 The prefrontals..are connate with the lacrymals. 1880Günther Fishes 57 The prefrontals, also small, occupy the anterior margin of the orbit.
So preˌfronto-ˈlachrymal a., at once prefrontal and lachrymal. (In quot. as n., sc. bone.)
1875Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 759/1 This meets a curved flat bone, which bounds the orbit anteriorly and internally, and articulates with an ascending process of the maxillary bone. It may..be regarded as a prefronto-lachrymal. |
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