1630s, "pertaining to the gall bladder," from French cystique (16c.), from Modern Latin cysticus, from Greek kystis "bladder, pouch." Meaning "pertaining to a cyst" is from 1713. Cystic fibrosis coined in 1938.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Cystic fibrosis is the commonest fatal here-ditary disease.
囊性纖維化是最常見(jiàn)的致命遺傳疾病。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disease in the United States.
囊性纖維化是美國(guó)最常見(jiàn)的致命遺傳疾病。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
3. Collins wants to avoid repetition of the confusion that followed the discovery in 1989 of the cystic fibrosis gene.