a. (sb.) Anat. [ad. mod.L. suprārēnālis: see SUPRA- 1 b and RENAL.] Situated above the kidney; applied to a pair of ductless glands (suprarenal bodies, capsules, corpuscles, glands), one immediately above each kidney; also to other structures connected with these.
1828. Quain, Elem. Anat., 500. The kidneys and supra-renal capsules.
1840. W. J. E. Wilson, Anat. Vade M. (1842), 309. The Supra-renal are sometimes branches of the phrenic or of the renal arteries. Ibid., 350. The Supra-renal veins terminate partly in the renal veins, and partly in the inferior vena cava.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 154. The connective tissue corpuscles of the supra-renal glands.
1883. Encycl. Brit., XV. 365/1. The ‘suprarenal bodies’ or ‘adrenals’ are two in number, [etc.].
1905. H. D. Rolleston, Dis. Liver, 271. The various preparations of suprarenal gland substance.
b. transf. Of, pertaining to, or affecting the suprarenal capsules.
1876. Bristowe, Theory & Pract. Med. (1878), 583. There are no lesions … which are constantly associated with the supra-renal affection. Ibid., 585. Supra-renal degeneration.
B. sb. A suprarenal capsule (in quot. 1841, a suprarenal artery).
1841. R. E. Grant, Outl. Comp. Anat., 512. The aorta gives off … the two small phrenic arteries … to the diaphragm; two or more minute supra-renals to the supra-renal capsules.
1895. Athenæum, 7 Dec., 795/2. The supra-renal bodies of fishes…. There was no relation … between the supra-renals and the lymphatic head-kidney.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 313. Glands without ducts, such as the … suprarenals.
Hence Suprarenalin, Suprarenin, a substance extracted from suprarenal capsules, used as a hæmostatic.
1904. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 17 Sept., 681/1. The constitution of suprarenin.
1909. Chemist. & Druggist, 20 Feb., 316/2. Novocain-Suprarenin Dental Tablets … contain … Suprarenin borate.
1909. Cent. Dict., Suppl., Suprarenalin.
