Middle English Dictionary Entry
nōdule n.
Entry Info
| Forms | nōdule n. Also nodel, noddel, nodle & nodulum. |
| Etymology | L nōdulus |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Med. (a) A knot or lump in the flesh or fleshy organ; (b) a plug or pellet used in performing a cautery; cauterie to the ~, cauterie ad nodulum, a cauterizing procedure in which a plug or pellet is used [cp. knotti 5. (d)]; (c) a kind of cauterizing instrument, perh. one used with a pellet or plug.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)4a/b : A capitle adminiculatyue of nodulez [L nodis], i. knottes, glandulez, & scrophulez and al fleumatic excrescencez, i. waxynges.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)32b/a : Glandule adminiculatif of nodlez, i. knottez, glandulez, & scrofulez, & al fleumatic excrescenciez.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)164b/b : The 6a instrument is circulare with 5 additamentez for to make 5 cauteriez ad nodulum [Ch.(2): to þe knotte; L ad nodum].
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)572/16 : With þe whiche cauteryes ben made þe whiche ben communely cleped to þe nodel [*Ch.(1): ad nodulum, i. knotty; L ad nodulum] in the pittes of þe armes and of the legges.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)572/27-8 : This cauterie forsothe helpeþ to þe noddel as doth þe poyntede cauteries, but þai ben lighter and more durable, for þe nodel [*Ch.(1): nodulus; L nodulus] goþ oute and falleþ downe ofte tymes.
c
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)306/33 : Þe..instrument..is cleped nodulum [L anodulum seu punctuale].
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. nodule.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. nodulum.