Middle English Dictionary Entry
scissūre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | scissūre n. Also scissura. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Surg.: (a) A fissure in the skin due either to a cut or to natural causes; (b) a surgical incision.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)263/5 : Scissure is a passioun in a mannes tunge þat is as it were kutting.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)296/28 : Scissure comeþ of malancolie brent, & makiþ as it were kuttyngis.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)64b/b : Wondez of neruous particlez..somtyme beþ pincturez [read: puncturez], somtyme scissurez [Ch.(2): kyttinges], somtyme forsoþ brissyngez or conquassionz.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)140b/a : In lippez & gyngyues falleþ..knottez..apustemez, bothorez, scissurez, & vlceracionz.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)143b/a : Causez..inmediate of rupturez ar scissure [L scissura] or dilatacioun..Scissure, i. kuttyng [Ch.(2): A chene or a clyfte], made proprely of fallyng or smytyng or mouyng or laborous enforcyng of strong crying or of vnordinate lichery.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)66b/b : Whane a senewe is kutt ouerþwert..þilke wounde is clepid Sissura, And if þat it be kutt in lenkþe þanne it is clepid ffissura.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)47a/b : Kut hym..On þe lifte partie if it be of þe lyuer..þat he may ligge in the side lesse akyng, noȝt on þe scissure, i. opnyng [Ch.(2): clifte].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)151a/a : Castracioun..is made..after 2 manerez, ouþer by attricioun or by scissure, i. kuttyng [Ch.(2): kittinge; L scissuram].
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. scissura.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. scissure.