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Revised 2021

zirbaladjective (& noun)

Anatomy and Surgery. Now historical and rare.
  1. ?a1425–
    Of or relating to the zirbus (omentum). Occasionally also as n.: †the zirbus (obsolete). See zirbus n.
    1. ?a1425
      Of hernia intestinale & zirboale [Latin zirbali].
      translation of Guy de Chauliac, Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med. MS.) f. 6v (Middle English Dictionary)
    2. a1450
      Of greuauncis of þe..hipis & of þe parties þat proceden fro hem, as of rupture or hernia of þe guttis & of þe zirbal [?c1425 Paris MS. zirbus].
      translation of Guy de Chauliac, Grande Chirurgie (Caius MS. 336/725) (1970) 32 (Middle English Dictionary)
    3. 1547
      There be .iii. kyndes of ruptures, the fyrst is zirbale.
      A. Borde, Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cxviiv
    4. a1654
      For when the Intestines, or Zirbus, doth pass thorow the Peretoneum, then it is either Intestinale or Zirbale.
      N. Culpeper, School of Physick (1659) 210
    5. 2000
      Berengario as a practical surgeon understands this to mean if the omentum reaches the air: to penetrate merely an interior membrane (as occurs in the zirbal rupture) is not necessarily to putrefy.
      R. K. French, Ancients & Moderns in Med. Science x. 68

zirbal, adj. was revised in March 2021.

zirbal, adj. was last modified in July 2023.