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Definition of natural history in English: natural historynoun mass noun1The scientific study of animals or plants, especially as concerned with observation rather than experiment, and presented in popular form. （尤指对动植物进行观察的）博物研究 Example sentencesExamples - Using the concept of spectacle, she explores the many ways in which contemporary natural history is now presented.
- Some items have survived in zoological institutes and natural history museums in Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, and Amsterdam, as well as in the British Museum in London.
- Now, drawing on the breadth of its research in natural history, its laboratories, and its collections, the Museum is in a strong position to contribute to the field of molecular biology.
- This field blends laboratory physiology, with its emphasis on controlled experimental designs, and natural history.
- Illustrations in works of natural history frequently showed apes assuming erect posture, using human tools, and approximating human proportions in the trunk and limbs.
- Sadly, the Knox Academy folded, and its exquisite natural history collections and library were dispersed, following Lermond's death in 1944.
- And this he did, remembering from his omnivorous reading a book entitled Out of Doors, by the popular Victorian natural history writer, the Reverend J.G. Wood.
- The Future Is Wild brings this world to life in a futuristic natural history series that puts evolution on fast forward.
- With the help of artists who simulated certain artifacts, and with the benefit of indispensable loans from natural history collections, I have produced a version of the past.
- The natural history of animal inebriation has been documented anecdotally, but has received no scientific attention.
- Scientists are shifting their attention from natural history studies to questions about how best to conserve isolated and declining populations.
- Such is his celebrity that taxi drivers discuss, not the weather, but natural history with him.
- On his way back from South America four years later, Wallace's ship caught fire and sank, destroying most of his notes, sketches, and natural history specimens.
- Anyone interested in lepidoptera, entomology, natural history, and probably even art and photography will enjoy the photographs.
- Additional inferences were based on examples from the literature and our own natural history observations at the site.
- Physiologically based biology and geology took over from natural history towards the end of the nineteenth century.
- Tunnicliffe specialized in natural history subjects, particularly birds, and was best known as a book illustrator.
- Founded a few years after Linnaeus's death, the Linnaean Society of London is still going strong as an international society for the study of natural history.
- Beyond the question of caring for these exotic creatures was the issue of whether anything of value to natural history could be learned by studying animals in captivity.
- Over the next three years, he sent his sponsor 209 dried plant specimens and fifty-nine natural history drawings, plus a lengthy report on the first years of his travels.
- Inquire to learn more about natural history expeditions throughout Alaska's Brooks Range, and select destinations elsewhere in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic.
- The museum also has a unique collection of armour and a now rather tattered natural history exhibition.
- 1.1 The study of the whole natural world, including mineralogy and palaeontology.
（包括矿物学和古生物学的）博物学 Example sentencesExamples - He was a true scholar, with interests in mineralogy, physics, natural history, chemistry, mathematics, and languages.
- The introductory programme, Pole to Pole, which alone took more than two years to film, observes the planet as a whole and examines the factors that have shaped its natural history.
- Answers to this question come mainly from ecology, natural history and of course evolutionary biology.
- I came to the profession of letters via the study of natural history, palaeontology, and medicine.
- Several of the drawers under the bookcases and in the medal cabinet in the Library are still packed with minerals and natural history specimens, including large pieces of coral, crystals, fossils and animal bones.
- Drawing upon an extensive literature relating to the region's natural history, Greenberg presents a most impressive interpretive synthesis designed for the general reader.
- 1.2 Natural phenomena which are the subject of scientific observation.
（科学观察的）自然现象 the area has an abundance of wildlife and natural history 彭布鲁克郡有着丰富的野生生物和可供研究的自然现象。 Example sentencesExamples - And during July there will be nature trails - view the flora, fauna and natural history and geology walks - how the landscape was shaped.
- There are tours of the back country looking at history, natural history and geology
- With Cruise West, you'll experience a unique exploration of natural history and culture, all in the company of like-minded travelers.
- Musk ox, Arctic fox, whales in the bay, reindeer on the horizon… Greenland is a wonderful world of natural history but the animals do keep their distance.
- Christine said: ‘He cares passionately about wildlife and natural history and has always been interested in bats.’
- Ron Lance is a long-term grower, photographer, researcher, and observer of native plants and natural history.
2Medicine
The usual course of development of a disease or condition, especially in the absence of treatment. 〔医〕（尤指在未治疗情况下疾病等的）自然发展过程 the natural history of cervical cancer among older women Example sentencesExamples - Knowledge of the age-related prevalence and natural history of cervical cancer precursors in women has guided the development of cervical cancer screening strategies for women.
- This natural history of cancer, and a straightforward version of it, could take two or three decades to develop.
- Is the association consistent with the natural history of the disease?
- The etiology, natural history, and optimal treatment of respiratory failure have been the subject of active investigation for over 100 years.
- Define the risk factors (host/genetic and environmental) that affect the occurrence and natural history of the disease.
- We also like to think that these drugs reduce symptoms, improve exercise performance, perhaps reduce the number of exacerbations, or even modify the disease natural history.
- Ideas about the evolution of microbes had not yet influenced concepts about the natural history of infectious diseases.
- Despite its increased frequency in diagnosis, the natural history, clinical course and management of this condition have not been well defined.
- The natural history of disease and response to treatment may be related to the genotype of HCV in a particular patient.
- The natural history of this condition is resolution of symptoms within 1-2 years and recovery of function.
- The natural history of the disease is accrual of large cells and transformation to an aggressive lymphoma.
- Therefore, every reported case is useful in defining the diagnostic, prognostic, therapeutic, and natural history criteria of the disease.
- The natural history of cervical spine instability is unknown, and controlled long-term longitudinal studies are lacking.
- The probability of recurrent depressive episodes and compliance rates was drawn primarily from published Phase III clinical trial and disease natural history data.
- There has therefore been increased interest in the early natural history of CF lung disease and in interventions that might prevent or delay the progression of pulmonary disease.
- Although it is known to be a genetically determined disease, the natural history is variable.
- Although extensively discussed in the literature, the origin and natural history of this condition are still unclear.
- But doctors learn about the natural history of diseases so that they can thwart or deflect them.
- For stage four patients, natural history data with standard treatments suggests this group of patients would be unlikely to have a survival at five to 10 years above 15 percent.
- Even allowing for individual variability, physicians have a wealth of information about the usual natural history of most conditions.
Derivativesnoun What was reassuring about our guide was that he knew what each bird ate and about their habitats as well as being a competent natural historian. Example sentencesExamples - The University's first professor of natural history had trained some of the most notable natural historians of the nineteenth century.
- A prolific letter writer, Blanche would send letters off to ornithologists, natural historians and horticulturists around the world, asking for and giving advice.
- Quite frankly, the explanations from natural historians, folklorists and fossil experts are as strange as Kipling's fictional accounts.
- Baker claims, ‘The theory of natural selection… postulates a causal relation wholly unappreciated by natural historians before Darwin.’
- When you read the eighteenth-century natural historians, they talk about clothing and beards and skin color all in the same paragraph.
Definition of natural history in US English: natural historynounˌnaCH(ə)rəl ˈhist(ə)rēˌnætʃ(ə)rəl ˈhɪst(ə)ri 1The scientific study of animals or plants, especially as concerned with observation rather than experiment, and presented in popular rather than academic form. （尤指对动植物进行观察的）博物研究 Example sentencesExamples - The natural history of animal inebriation has been documented anecdotally, but has received no scientific attention.
- On his way back from South America four years later, Wallace's ship caught fire and sank, destroying most of his notes, sketches, and natural history specimens.
- The museum also has a unique collection of armour and a now rather tattered natural history exhibition.
- Additional inferences were based on examples from the literature and our own natural history observations at the site.
- Using the concept of spectacle, she explores the many ways in which contemporary natural history is now presented.
- Illustrations in works of natural history frequently showed apes assuming erect posture, using human tools, and approximating human proportions in the trunk and limbs.
- Beyond the question of caring for these exotic creatures was the issue of whether anything of value to natural history could be learned by studying animals in captivity.
- Now, drawing on the breadth of its research in natural history, its laboratories, and its collections, the Museum is in a strong position to contribute to the field of molecular biology.
- Inquire to learn more about natural history expeditions throughout Alaska's Brooks Range, and select destinations elsewhere in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic.
- Physiologically based biology and geology took over from natural history towards the end of the nineteenth century.
- Sadly, the Knox Academy folded, and its exquisite natural history collections and library were dispersed, following Lermond's death in 1944.
- This field blends laboratory physiology, with its emphasis on controlled experimental designs, and natural history.
- Such is his celebrity that taxi drivers discuss, not the weather, but natural history with him.
- The Future Is Wild brings this world to life in a futuristic natural history series that puts evolution on fast forward.
- And this he did, remembering from his omnivorous reading a book entitled Out of Doors, by the popular Victorian natural history writer, the Reverend J.G. Wood.
- With the help of artists who simulated certain artifacts, and with the benefit of indispensable loans from natural history collections, I have produced a version of the past.
- Some items have survived in zoological institutes and natural history museums in Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, and Amsterdam, as well as in the British Museum in London.
- Founded a few years after Linnaeus's death, the Linnaean Society of London is still going strong as an international society for the study of natural history.
- Over the next three years, he sent his sponsor 209 dried plant specimens and fifty-nine natural history drawings, plus a lengthy report on the first years of his travels.
- Scientists are shifting their attention from natural history studies to questions about how best to conserve isolated and declining populations.
- Tunnicliffe specialized in natural history subjects, particularly birds, and was best known as a book illustrator.
- Anyone interested in lepidoptera, entomology, natural history, and probably even art and photography will enjoy the photographs.
- 1.1 The study of the whole natural world, including mineralogy and paleontology.
（包括矿物学和古生物学的）博物学 Example sentencesExamples - Drawing upon an extensive literature relating to the region's natural history, Greenberg presents a most impressive interpretive synthesis designed for the general reader.
- The introductory programme, Pole to Pole, which alone took more than two years to film, observes the planet as a whole and examines the factors that have shaped its natural history.
- I came to the profession of letters via the study of natural history, palaeontology, and medicine.
- He was a true scholar, with interests in mineralogy, physics, natural history, chemistry, mathematics, and languages.
- Answers to this question come mainly from ecology, natural history and of course evolutionary biology.
- Several of the drawers under the bookcases and in the medal cabinet in the Library are still packed with minerals and natural history specimens, including large pieces of coral, crystals, fossils and animal bones.
2Medicine
The usual course of development of a disease or condition, especially in the absence of treatment. 〔医〕（尤指在未治疗情况下疾病等的）自然发展过程 the natural history of cancerous tumors Example sentencesExamples - Even allowing for individual variability, physicians have a wealth of information about the usual natural history of most conditions.
- We also like to think that these drugs reduce symptoms, improve exercise performance, perhaps reduce the number of exacerbations, or even modify the disease natural history.
- Ideas about the evolution of microbes had not yet influenced concepts about the natural history of infectious diseases.
- Is the association consistent with the natural history of the disease?
- But doctors learn about the natural history of diseases so that they can thwart or deflect them.
- The etiology, natural history, and optimal treatment of respiratory failure have been the subject of active investigation for over 100 years.
- Although it is known to be a genetically determined disease, the natural history is variable.
- The natural history of disease and response to treatment may be related to the genotype of HCV in a particular patient.
- For stage four patients, natural history data with standard treatments suggests this group of patients would be unlikely to have a survival at five to 10 years above 15 percent.
- Although extensively discussed in the literature, the origin and natural history of this condition are still unclear.
- There has therefore been increased interest in the early natural history of CF lung disease and in interventions that might prevent or delay the progression of pulmonary disease.
- Knowledge of the age-related prevalence and natural history of cervical cancer precursors in women has guided the development of cervical cancer screening strategies for women.
- The probability of recurrent depressive episodes and compliance rates was drawn primarily from published Phase III clinical trial and disease natural history data.
- The natural history of the disease is accrual of large cells and transformation to an aggressive lymphoma.
- Therefore, every reported case is useful in defining the diagnostic, prognostic, therapeutic, and natural history criteria of the disease.
- The natural history of cervical spine instability is unknown, and controlled long-term longitudinal studies are lacking.
- This natural history of cancer, and a straightforward version of it, could take two or three decades to develop.
- Define the risk factors (host/genetic and environmental) that affect the occurrence and natural history of the disease.
- Despite its increased frequency in diagnosis, the natural history, clinical course and management of this condition have not been well defined.
- The natural history of this condition is resolution of symptoms within 1-2 years and recovery of function.
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