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mirach
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See also: mírách
English
Alternative forms
- myrach
Etymology
From Medieval Latin mirac, mirach, from Arabic مَرَقّ (maraqq, “delicate and sensible part of the venter”), from رَقَّ (raqqa, “to be soft”).
Noun
mirach (plural mirachs)
- (medicine, obsolete) The abdominal wall. [15th–17th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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.”
See also
- مِسْرَاق (misrāq, “mesenterium”)
References
- Hyrtl, Joseph (1879), Das Arabische und Hebräische in der Anatomie (in German), Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, pages 177–185
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