A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by Richard D. Hoblyn.

  • Richard Hoblyn
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1858
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    1. A carus ctutuittnciHs. The harvest-hug, mower's tuitc, wheal-worm, or rouget; a minute animal which attacks the legs during the harvest season, and thence proceeds to every other part of the hody. 2. Acarus fuUiculoram. The name given by Dr. Simon, of Berlin, to an animalcule found in the sebaceous substance of the hair-follicles. See Steutozoon. 3. Acarus scabiei. The itch-animalcule; a parasite which infests the human scarfskin, commonly between the fingers, in the bends of the wrists and elbows, the same parts on the lei;s, .and the front of the trunk of the body. 4. Acarus Stuckholmii. The Stockholm acarus ; a parasitic animal- cule more than three times as large as the liarvest-bug and itch-animal- cule ; found on a hady residing in Stockholm. 5. Acarus Crossei. A minute anim.al, supposed by Mr. Crosse to hiive been developed in a solution of silicate of potassa, when submitted to slow galvanic action for the purpose of obtaining cryst.als of silex. AC'ATA'POSIS (a, priv., Kaxairoiri9, deglutition). An inability to swallow liquids: synonymous with h/dropholtia. ACAULE'SCENT («, priv., KauXov, a cabb.age-stalk). Stemless; a term applied to certain phmts, of which the stem is so short ,as to be almost reduced to nothing, as in Cnicus acaulis. The term suhcaulesceiit would be prelerable in these cases. ACAWE'KIA. The Singalese designation of the root of the Opld- oa.-1/ton serpentinum. a supposed antidote to the venom of serpents. ACCELERA'TION {accelero, to hasten). Increased rapidity as of tlie pulse, of the respiration, &c. ACCELERA'TOR URI'N^ (accelero, to hasten). A muscle whicli contriicts to expel or accelerate the pass.age of the urine. ACC'ESSION {accedo, to approach). The approach or commence- ment ot the pyrexial period, in fevers. ACCESSU'RII VVILLI'SII (accedo, to be added to). The superior respiratory nerves ; a pair arising from the spinal marrow, and joining the par vaquin. > j e AC'CESSORY (accedo. to be added to). A term applied to several muscles, ligaments, &c. which depend on, or are added to some other liart 1 hus, Haller applied the term accessory of Ike parotid to a small gland which accomptinies the parotid duct, and seems to be a mere pro- longation of the parotid itself. ' ACCIDE'NTAL (accidu, to h.appen). Adcentiiious. That M'hich occurs unexpectedly, as a tissue, when it is the result of a morbid pro- nai n R r^^^ COLOURS. A series of optical phenomena, so named b,'ButTon and now known by the name of Ocular Spectra. If the eye be steadily directed, for some time, to a rchile wafer upon wffer xliirh •^',*V'V™'' aside, a well-defined image of the nearrlnH perceived with the colours reversed; the wafer will ap- dent 1 i f ' This new appearance is termed the accl taTnX 3::!''^ ^'^ Colour o/ Wafer. Colour of Spectra. VVhite. ^h'te Black. ^^^'1 Bluish G reen. J
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