A medical glossary : in which the words in the various branches of medicine are deduced from their original languages, properly accented, and explained / by W. Turton, M.D.

William Turton

Date:: 1797

Credit: A medical glossary : in which the words in the various branches of medicine are deduced from their original languages, properly accented, and explained / by W. Turton, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Badukka (Indian). A name of the capparis. Bagnio (from bagtw, Ital.) A bathing or fweating-houfe. Balje'na (SaXanw, from £jcAA« to call, from its power in catling up water. Md. Becman thinks it comes from ^2 balah to de- vour, Heb. from its voracity). The whale. Balanda (from gaAat-of a nut, and «<5of form, Blanchard). The becch-trce. See Valanida. Balaninus {^xKamoc, from GxXxm; an acorn). Belonging to or exprefled from a nut or kernel. Oleum balamnum means the oil of ben. BalanoCastanum (Sx\ctvoy.%rcii/ov, from txhxm a nut, and xx^vov a chefnut). The earth-nut; fo called from its tuberous root. Balanos (6aA«i/oj, from SaXXw to caft, becaufe it flieds its fruit upon the ground. Blanchard. Or more probably from ]hH2 balon proceeding from the oak, Heb.) An acorn ; or any glandiferous tree. A peflary or fuppotitory made like an acorn. Alfo the glans penis, from its fhape. BAlanus. The fame. Balaustium (SaXavrioi/, from SaXio? various, and auw to dry ; fo called from the variety of its colours, and its becoming foon dry ; or from £Aar««d to germinate. Blanchard). The wild pomegra- nate. Balbuties (from £a£a£&) to trammer, or father from 7273 balbel to babble, Heb.) A defect of pronunciation : a ftammering. Ballista (from &»x*u to caft). The aftragalus is called the os ballift<gs becaufe the ancients ufed to caft it from their flings. Ballote (6«xxwt»i, from Saxxw to fend forth, and 2?, wto? the ear, becaufe it fends forth flowers like ears. Littleton). The herb ftinking horehound. Balneabilis (from balneum a bath). An epithet ufed for fuch waters as are proper to bathe in. Balneum (gaXa^ov, from SaAcci/o? an acorn, becaufe the ancients ufed to burn the hulks of nuts or acorns in their baths. Min- fhew. Or from g«xxw to caft away, and mix grief, becaufe it expels griefs from the mind. D. Auguft. in Lib. Confefl*. Pro- bably from 1*711 balan, Talmud). A bath, or bathing-houfe. Balsamatio (from baljamum a balfam). The embalming of dead bodies. Balsamea$