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.

  • Turton, William, 1762-1835.
Date:
1797
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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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    Tkitto (from tcro to rub). Attrition, or the reducing fubilances to powder by rubbing them together. Tritorium (from trito to beat linall). A mortar. Alfo a glafe for fcparating the oil from the water in diftilling. Tiutura. See Tritio. Trochar (from trois-quart, a three-fourths, from its triangular form, French). An inflrument to difcharge the water in an afcites. Trochanter (rpoy^vrvp, from to run, becaufe the mufcles inferted in thefe parts perform the office of running). A procefs of the thigh-bone. Trochilodes (t^iAwoV, from TgoyiXos round). The round part of the arm. Troc.hiscus (T^i«8f, dim. of r^o^o? a wheel). A troch or round tablet. Trochites (t^o^t*)?, from r^oycq a wheel or hoop). A ftone like a hoop. Trochlea (t%o%Xix a pully, from T^tju to run). A kind of carti- laginous pulley through which the tendon of one of the muf- cles of the eye pafies. Trochlearis (from trochlea). Belonging to the trochlea. Trochoides (r^oHSr,c, from r^yoq a wheel, and etfa a likenefs). A fpecies of articulation, when one is inferted into another like the axle-tree of a wheel. Troglody'tes (T£wyAoduT?i?, from r^uyXm a cavern). The hedge- fparrow ; named becaufe it inhabits caverns and holes in rocks. Troma (i^ufAx, from titcwtxw to wound). A wound. Tromos (TfOjwo?, from rgspu to tremble). A tremor. Trophema {r^ofn^a,] from r^ipu to nourifh). Food; nourifhment. Truncus (from triinco to lop off). The body of a tree without its branches, and the body without its head and extremities. The trunk. Tryx (t£u£, from to take from). The lees or dregs after the better parts have been drawn off. Try'xalis (rpfaxii, from rgvyw to take off). A fpecies of locuft which appears to have had its wings taken off. Tjjba (from tubus a hollow pipe). A tube or cavity palling from the