英：[həˈmʌŋkjələs]
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homunculus如何读
homunculus是什么意思
- n.矮人；胎儿；人体模型
homunculus自然拼读
ho·mun·cu·lus
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homunculus变形
复数:homunculi
homunculus扩展
homuncular (adj.)
homunculus英英释义
- n.
- a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
- a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
homunculus词源中文解释
1650年代，“人工制造的小人”，源自拉丁语 homunculus（复数形式为 homunculi），字面意思为“小人”，由 -culus，即“小”的后缀，和 homo（属格为 hominis）组成，它在技术上意味着“男性人类”，但它也被用来表示“人类，人类”； 在俗语拉丁语中，它可以用作“一个人，任何人，他们，人们”的意思，在逻辑和学术写作中可以用作“一个人，人类”。
这被推测来自原始印欧语言 *(dh)ghomon-（也是古爱尔兰语 duine，威尔士语 dyn，布列塔尼语 den “人”； 古普鲁士语 smunents， smunets “人”； 古立陶宛语 žmuo “人”，立陶宛语 žmogus “男人”， žmones “人们”，哥特语 guma，古高地德语 gomo，古诺尔斯语 gume，古英语 guma “男人”）。字面意思是“土著”，来自原始印欧语言根 *dhghem- “土地”（比较 human（形容词））。其他从 homo 衍生的拉丁语小词包括 homullus， homuncio。
homunculus_医学行业词汇
矮人：身体各部无畸形或不匀称
小人：一度认为精子或卵子中预成的微型人
homunculus词源英文解释
Latin, diminutive of homin-, homo human being — more at homage
The first known use of homunculus was in 1656
homunculus医学词典英英释义
homunculusnoun
a miniature adult that in the theory of preformation was held to inhabit the germ cell and to produce a mature individual merely by an increase in size
homunculus 例句
1 Mr. McEwan’s little homunculus is, by turns, earnest, mocking, sarcastic, searching and irreverent, especially when his mother has had several glasses of wine and he’s reeling from a contact high.
2 This poorly understood and speculative entity goes by various names—free will, homunculus, decision maker, executive function, intervening variables or simply just a “black box.”
3 However, his protocol for generating what he dubbed a homunculus was an unsavoury blend of alchemy and inter-species breeding.
4 In return, Pierre reported on the manufacture of a homunculus in a glass vial.
5 In time, the rabbit sees the homunculus, says hello, then becomes infuriated when it refuses to answer.
6 He satisfied himself that the brain of this homunculus was discernible.
7 The myth of artificial life, from homunculi and cyborgs to robots and androids, is the focus of an exhibition about the Golem at the Jewish Museum Berlin.
8 Within this area, finer separation can be made on the basis of the concept of the sensory homunculus, as well as the different submodalities of somatosensation such as touch, vibration, pain, temperature, or proprioception.
9 Similar to the exaggerations in the sensory homunculus of the somatosensory cortex, the foveal-processing area of the visual cortex is disproportionately larger than the areas processing peripheral vision.
10 Figure 14.23 The Sensory Homunculus A cartoon representation of the sensory homunculus arranged adjacent to the cortical region in which the processing takes place.
11 The hands on a homunculus are enormous, and the elbow is disproportionately miniature.
12 The conception of a normal child was merely the transfer of this minihuman—the homunculus—from the father’s sperm into the mother’s womb.
13 If you could go out for drinks with these homunculi, they'd tell you all about what nature is like at lower and middle hierarchical scales.
14 That myth of the little homunculus sitting in the back of your skull, watching the author’s movie being projected onto the front of your skull—that’s really important to people.
15 The theory was so seductive—so artfully vivid—that even the invention of the microscope was unable to deal the expected fatal blow to the homunculus.
16 Maxwell posited a tiny homunculus that could cordon off hotter, faster molecules from colder, slower ones.
17 Despite the stiff competition from popular culture, neuroscience textbooks have succeeded better than any other medium in defining the contemporary meaning of homunculus.
18 For example, a homunculus, or “little man,” is mapped onto the brain’s motor and somatosensory cortices, such that different regions of this cortical map support movement and sensation in different body parts.
19 Here, then, is heresy: maybe there is no one in charge — no independent, self-serving, order-issuing homunculus.
20 In 1950 neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield and a colleague published a depiction of a homunculus that wrapped around the somatosensory cortex and illustrated where the brain processed touch for specific body parts.