Meanings
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The trigeminous variety presents by far the most interesting pathological entity yet observed among diseases of which cough is a symptom.
1886 March 20, “Trigeminous Cough”, in The American Practitioner and News, volume I (New Series), number 6, page 172 - not comparabletrigeminal
trigeminous nerve
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With report of two cases and demonstration of anatomical specimens, I described before the last congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie an operative procedure modifying Krönlein's method to expose the second and third branch of the trigeminous at the base of the skull.
1906 January–June, Erich Lexner, translated by E. C. Riebel, “Simplifying Modification of Kronlein's Trigeminous Operation”, in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, volume II, page 47Without going into a minute review of the trigeminous nerve, its roots, its three main branches and its numerous endings, the author pointed out the components of the reflex nerve tract reaching the ciliary muscle.
1918 April, “Chicago Opthalmological Society Meeting of Nov. 19, 1917—Continued: Ocular Manifestations”, in Illinois Medical Journal, volume 33, number 4, page 239It is compression of the retrogasserian trigeminal nerve within the confines of the porous trigeminous.
2019, Jeffrey A. Brown, “Secondary Trigeminal Neuralgia (Balloon Compression Rhizolysis)”, in Oren Sagher, Emily Lehmann Levin, Julie G. Pilitsis, editors, Pain Neurosurgery: Neurosurgery by Example, Oxford University Press, page 18 - not comparableexhibiting trigeminy
trigeminous beat/pulse
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As the action developed further, trigeminous beats began; still later they developed into an irregular spontaneous ventricular rhythm.
1926, A. R. Cushny, K. Y. Yu, “Slowing and Block in the Heart under Digitalis in Animals”, in The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, volume XXVI, number 1, page 11
Origin
- Latintrigeminus“born three together”
- Englishtrigeminous
From Latin trigeminus (“born three together”), from tri- + geminus (“twin”). Compare tergeminous.
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