suprarenal, a. (n.) Anat.
(s(j)uːprəˈriːnəl)
[ad. mod.L. suprārēnālis: see supra- 1 b and renal.]
A. adj. a. Situated above the kidney; applied to a pair of ductless glands (suprarenal bodies, suprarenal capsules, suprarenal corpuscles, suprarenal glands), one immediately above each kidney; also to other structures connected with these.
| 1828 Quain Elem. Anat. 500 The kidneys and supra-renal capsules. 1840 E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. (1842) 309 The Supra-renal are sometimes branches of the phrenic or of the renal arteries. Ibid. 350 The Supra-renal veins terminate partly in the renal veins, and partly in the inferior vena cava. 1876 tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 154 The connective tissue corpuscles of the supra-renal glands. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 365/1 The ‘suprarenal bodies’ or ‘adrenals’. 1905 H. D. Rolleston Dis. Liver 271 The various preparations of suprarenal gland substance. |
b. transf. Of, pertaining to, or affecting the suprarenal capsules.
| 1876 J. S. Bristowe Theory & Pract. Med. (1878) 583 There are no lesions..which are constantly associated with the supra-renal affection. Ibid. 585 Supra-renal degeneration. |
B. n. A suprarenal capsule (in quot. 1841, a suprarenal artery).
| 1841 R. E. Grant Outl. Comp. Anat. 512 The aorta gives off..the two small phrenic arteries..to the diaphragm; two or more minute supra-renals to the supra-renal capsules. 1895 Athenæum 7 Dec. 795/2 The supra-renal bodies of fishes... There was no relation..between the supra-renals and the lymphatic head-kidney. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 313 Glands without ducts, such as the..suprarenals. |
Hence supraˈrenalin, supraˈrenin, a substance extracted from suprarenal capsules, used as a hæmostatic.
| 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Sept. 681 The constitution of suprarenin. 1909 Chem. & Druggist 20 Feb. 316/2 Novocain-Suprarenin Dental Tablets..contain..Suprarenin borate. 1909 Cent. Dict., Suppl., Suprarenalin. |