Jul 6, 2000 08:08
23 yrs ago
French term

"fibrilles de Young" or "fébriles de Young"

French to English Medical
This is an excerpt from an 1880's article on impressionism involving 'scientific' analysis of visual perception and color theory.
"L'oeil voit synthetiquement et grossierement seulement la lumiere et n'a que de vagues pouvoirs de la decomposer malgre ses trois fibrilles de Young qui sont les facettes du prisme."
[...]new excerpt: "Et ce n'est pas la sensibilite d'un seul organe,[l'oeil] mais les trois sensibilites en concurrence vitale des trois fébriles de Young."
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Young's fibrils/febriles

Both eurodictum and Termium give fibril for "fibrille" and febrile for "febrile"
(see following examples)
fibrilles d'Alzheimer
English Term Alzheimer fibrils
fibrilles conjonctives
English Term connective-tissue fibrils
alopécie fébrile
English Term febrile alopecia
acmé fébrile
English Term febrile crisis


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Young's fibres

Fibrilles (= petites fibres (Larousse) ) : fibres (eurodicautom)

Young (Thomas) est un médecin, physicien, et philologue britannique (1773 - 1829) qui découvrit l'adaptation de l'oeil.

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