carnification

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A pathological process in which chronic inflammation or infection causes lung tissue to organize into a fibrous form that resembles meat, which can lead to a loss of normal lung function.

   “Carnification is held to be most common in new-born children; after the fifth year it is comparatively unfrequent in occurrence; whilst in adults it is very rarely met with; but in aged people again becomes more common , though still less so than in early life.”

2. isim A similar pathological transformation to other types of tissue so that it becomes fibrous and dense.

   “One grade of inflammatory irritation produces carnification or hepatization of the medullary tissue, another grade suppuration, and a still higher degree of inflammatory irritation produces gangrene of that tissue.”

3. isim The literal transformation of something into flesh or meat.

   “Brooks Bouson also remarks on the fact that Year also draws much of its abject horror from its vision of the male "''carnification" of the female subject: that is, the reduction of the woman to a fleshly object or to meat or to a rotting corpse' (p. 13).”

4. isim The transformation of something into a human being.

   “Alongside these radiant, clamorous sisters with their luminous eyes and rich curves, Hennie appeared – and was– frail, muted, secretive, nothing at all like an expected carnfication of his full name, Hendrik.”

5. isim The process of something nonphysical taking on a physical form (not necessarily involving flesh).

   “Ptah-Seth and Sekmet whirl in utter disorientation, dizzy with the loss of time and reality, utterly confused and shattered by the destruction of their first carnification and the change to another form.”

6. isim Carnal (sexual) activity.

   “Yet the spaces between the photos are not so unfleshly: sanguinary parturition, placid blood-warmth of lactation, mysterious lone carnification of my and my husband's love in this marriage-bed– all even more inviolable for being so privately, so unimmortally mine”