acro-
Gr. ἀκρο- combining form of ἄκρος a. terminal, highest, topmost; n. a tip, point, extremity, peak, summit; as in ἀκρό-λιθος stone-tipped, acrolith; ἀκρόπολις the highest city, Acropolis; ἀκρόνυχ-ος happening at the point of night-fall, acronychal. Largely used in its various senses to form modern technical terms.
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Add: acrocyaˈnosis Path. [ad. F. acrocyanose (coined by J.B. Crocq 1896, in Arch. de Neurologie II. 218)], cyanosis of the extremities.
| 1897 Index Medicus XIX. 864/1 (Index), *Acrocyanosis. 1907 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XXXIV. 746 Perhaps the simplest form of vasomotor neurosis is simple acrocyanosis. 1930 Heart XV. 240 Acrocyanosis presents distinct contrasts with the variety of Raynaud's malady previously investigated. 1982 D. E. Bayly Reflexol. Today (rev. ed.) ix. 32, I have seen many old people suffering from acrocyanosis (blueness of the extremities). |
acrodynia (-ˈdaɪnɪə) Path. [ad. F. acrodynie (coined by M. Chardon 1830, in Rev. Med. Fran{cced}aise et {Eacu}trangère III. 51), f. Gr. ὀδύνη pain], (a) (now rare) a painful erythematous disease, chiefly affecting the hands and feet of children; (b) = pink disease s.v. pink n.4 and a.1 C. c.
| 1839 Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 2) 12/1 *Acrodynia, a painful affection of the wrists and ancles especially. 1920 Arch. Pediatrics XXXVII. 518 What knowledge we possess of acrodynia is derived chiefly from the..Paris epidemic..first observed in June, 1828. 1922 Brit. Jrnl. Children's Dis. XIX. 23 The cases in young children in America, described during 1920 and 1921 as acrodynia.., are of the same nature as the Australian ‘erythrœdema’ [sc. pink disease] cases. 1987 Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. vi. 14/2 Acrodynia in infancy, or ‘pink disease’, has been associated with the use of mercury-containing teething powders. |