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cœliac, a. (and n.)|ˈsiːlɪæk|
Also 7–8 -ack, cel-.
[ad. L. cœliac-us, a. Gr. κοιλιακός belonging to the belly; also, suffering in the bowels, f. κοιλία belly, bowels (f. κοῖλος hollow). Cf. F. cœliaque (in Cotgr. celiac, celiaque).]
A. adj. Of or belonging to the belly, or cavity of the abdomen. Applied spec. to an intestinal disease, esp. of children, characterized by defective digestion of fats.
cœliac artery or cœliac axis, a thick short branch issuing from the aorta just below the diaphragm, and giving off the coronary, hepatic, and splenic arteries. † cœliac passion or cœliac flux a kind of chronic flux of the intestines. cœliac plexus, that process of the solar plexus which surrounds the cœliac axis. cœliac canal, in crinoids, a canal which runs into the arms from the cœloma or body-cavity.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 222 In the Cœliack or belly passion, the Pylorus is never shut. 1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Celiac vessels, Vessels belonging to the belly. 1713Cheselden Anat. (1726) 104 Immediately below the diaphragm arises the cœliac artery from the aorta. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 194/1 The cœliac artery, called, also, cœliac axis, is one of the largest and shortest of the vessels given off by the abdominal aorta. 1836Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. xv. 197 It attacks..the cœliac plexus of the abdominal nerves. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. An. ix. 586 The subtentacular and cœliac canals communicate with channels in the perivisceral tissue. 1888S. Gee in St. Bart's Hosp. Rep. xxiv. 17 Diarrhœa alba is the name employed in India to denote the cœliac affection; not that it is always a cœliac flux, a diarrhœa strictly speaking. 1911Practitioner LXXXVII. 147 (heading) Celiac disease. 1930Q. Jrnl. Med. XXIII. 438 Coeliac disease is probably the result of a development defect in absorption. 1955Sci. News Let. 5 Mar. 152/2 Many sufferers of sprue and celiac disease, a digestive illness, cannot digest ordinary bread.
†B. n. = cœliac passion.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 76 The spleen [of a he-goat] rosted helpeth the cœliack. |
