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

  • Richard Hoblyn
Date:
1858
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    Cohur of Wafer. Colour of Spectra. 0''=}ng« Blue. ^ ^''llo^^ Indigo. ^1™'' Violet, with a little Red. f'^ Orange Red. Orange Yellow. . 7'°''''V V. Bluish Green. Sonlwi^''^ P '1-P«™~ of the impression, the lane; l.^'^^S^'^r^-'^P (acc!>)!0, to take). Rapacious birds; hirds of nrev• ir^nl *SeelX'^^'' '^^ '^^^ t'>e'diu..aU?dThe .ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE CATARACT. A whitish viscid substance which sometimes surrounds the opaque crystalline lens' ™lctou'A'l f\u?n''t f°■^'•'^r' ' AtCUU GHEMENT (accoucker, to be brought to bed) Parturi- A^PRr''TmM' ' of *e f»tus from the uterus. AOLRE I ION (accresco, to grow to). The addition of new parts as m the formation of a crystal by the position of new parts aromd a central nucleus. The organic and inorganic kingdoms are distinguished by their mode of increase; the former increasing by iutics-susceplion and alimentation, the latter by accretion without alimentation ACCU'BITUS JUNl'ORIS. The animal heat of a young and healthy person ; a remedy employed in cases of extreme exhaustion with great depression of the temperature of the body, especially in the aged ACCU'MBENT {acciimho, to lie at a place). Lying against any thing, as the edges of the cotyledons against the radicle in some cru- ciferous ])l.mts. -A'CEOUS. Terminations in -aceous denote a resemblance to a substance, as membranaceous, resembling membrane; whereas termina- tions in -ous denote the substance itself, as membranous, belonging to membrane. ACE'PHALA (n, priv., KsrpaXii, the head). Headless animals; a class of animals having no head, but merely a mouth concealed within the folds of their mantle, as the oyster. See Zoology. ACEPHA'LIA («, priv., Kcrl)a\i,, the head), the condition of an acephalous foetus, or a foetus born without a head. ACE'PHALOCYST (a, priv., KttpaMi, the head, kiJcttis, a blad- der). The hydatid, or headless bladder-worm. See Fermc!. A'CERIC ACID. A peculiar acid said to exist in the sap of the Acer cumpestre, or common Maple, in the state of acerate of lime. A'CEROSE {aciis, a needle). Sharp-pointed; tapering to a fine point, as the leaves of juniper. ACE'RVULUS CE'REBRI (dim. of acervus, a lieap). Literally, a little heap; a term applied by Soemmering to a small quadrilateral mass of concretions collected under the tela choroidea, near the posterior commissure of the brain. ACE'SCENT (ucesco, to become sour). A term applied to sub- stances which become sour spontaneously, as vegetable and animal juices, or infusions.