Medical vocabulary, or, an explanation of all names, synonyms, terms, and phrases used in medicine and the relative branches of medical science.
- Mayne, Robert Gray, 1808-1868
- Date:
- 1862
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medical vocabulary, or, an explanation of all names, synonyms, terms, and phrases used in medicine and the relative branches of medical science. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Stacie to the complete establishment of respiration. a, um. (A, priv. ; duXapLoi, a bed.) JJoi. Having no conceptacles: atha'lamous. Atlil^rlc^ru.H, a, uin. {’A6i)p, the point of a sword; k?;/)os, slender.) ^Entomol. Applied to a Family (nom. pi. n.) of the Diptera, in which the lower and side pieces of the sucker are linear and pointed, or setaceous: athericer'ous. Atlicr'mituiis, a, um. (A, priv.; dep/uLaivu), to make warm.) E'at. Philos. Not communicating heat; ather'manous. Atheroma, htis, n. {'Addpa, gruel.) Surg. Pathol. An encysted tumom- containing a soft substance bke panada. Athero'matous. {Athh'oma; ter- minal-osms.) Of the nature of A Toma. AtMromhtosm, a, um. Atlile'tic. (’AdXv'n'js, au athlete.) Having strong muscular develop- ment, as in th^ose who exercised in the ancient games. A thletlcus, a, um. Atlau'tad. Anat. Same as At- lantal used adverbially. Atlan'tal. Anat. Applied by Dr Barclay, as meaning towards the atlas. Atlas, antis, m. {Atla^, said to bear the world upon his shoulders; because it immediately sustains the head.) Anat. The first cervical wr- tehra. Atmido'meter. \ (’At/tIs, or o.t- Atmo'meter. j p.6s, vapour; /x6Tpov, a measure.) N'a.t. Philos. An instrument by which the vapour exhaled from a humid surface in a given time may be measured. At- mxdo'm'&trum, ^vAAtmA'm'Hii'um, i, n. At'mospliere. ('At/xos, vapour; (T(f)ai:pa, a globe or sphere.) Chem. Applied to gases. Nat. Philos. The thin elastic fiuid encompassing the earth to a height judged to be about forty-five miles; the natural air we breathe. Atmosphera, ce, f. A'tom. (A, neg. ; TeVi', to cut.) Chem., Nat. Philos. The smallest ]iarticle of matter, incapable of farther division. A'tovmis, i, m. A'tom, Compo'neut. Chem. That which unites with another of diiferent nature, to form a third or compound atom. A'tom, C'om'poiiiid. Clietn. That formed by two atoms of dif- ferent nature. A'tom, Elemen'tary. Chem. That of a substance not decorniiosed. A'tom, Orga'iiic. Chem. That of a substance found only in organic bodies. A'tom, Prl'mary. Same as A tom, Elementary. Ato'mic. Belonging to atoms, or particles. AtH'micus, a, um. Ato'mic Tlie'ory. Chem. That by which calculations are made re- garding the ultimate particles of bodies, and their relative proportions in compound substances ; the doc- trine of definite proportions. Ato'nic. (A, priv.; tovos, tone.) Pathol. Without, or having di- minished tone, or power. Apj'nlcm, a, um. A'tony. (Same.) Pathol. Want, or diminution, of muscular tone. Ato'nia, ce, f. Atrabl'liary. {Atrabilis, black bile.) A^nat. Applied to the renal, or supra-renal glands, or capsules, and to the arteries and veins by which they are supplied. Atrabllidrius, a, . um. AtrfiMli.s, is, f. {Ater, black; bile.) Black bile; an imaginary fiuid supposed to be the cause of Alelancholia, when existing in exces- sive quantity. Atraclielns, a, um. (A, priv.; 'rpdxnXo^, the neck.) Wanting the neck: atrache'lous. Atr6t6c6'ph!llu.s, i,m. ) (A,priv.; Atrf tScormus, i, m. j 'ri'rpnph to perforate ; KecfxaXi], the head; Ko/o/uds, a trunk.) Physiol. A mon- ster-fetus without the natural open- ings in the head, or in the trunk, respectively. A'trlipa, ce, f. (Atpottos, one of the three Fates, whose special duty it was to cut the thread of life.) A Linn, genus, Cl. Pentandria; Ord. Monogynia. Juss. Solanece. A'trftpa Bel'ladon'iia. M. Med. The deadly nightshade, or bella- donna. Atrd'pliia, ce, f. (A, priv.; 'rpicpw, to nourish.) A'trophy; a genus, Orel. Marcores; Cl. Cachexice, of Ciillen’s^i, Nosologj\ See Atrop>hy. ;; A'trophy. Atrophia.) a- %](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24862393_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
