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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    an alkaline base, the quantity of wLich, requisite for this purpose, is the measure of its power. 6. AdduloHs. Slightly acid ; a term applied to those salts in which the base is combined with such an excess of acid that they manifestly exhibit acid properties, as the supertartrate of potassa. 7. Aciduldus lotiiers. Mineral waters which owe their distinctive peculiarities to the presence of carbonic acid, either alone, or in com- bination with bases. A'CIDS, COUPLED. Organic acids which contain an acid coupled with another body, which does not neutralize the acid, but accompanies it in all its combinations. Thus in hydro-sulphuro-na])hihalic acid, we have hydro-sulphuric acid coupled with naphthaline, and the conpled acid neutralizes exactly as much base as the hydro-sulphuric acid alone would neutralize. ACINA'CIFORM (acinaces, a. scimitar,/o»TOa, likeness). Scimitar- shaped ; plane on the sides, with one border thick, the other thin, as the leaves of mesembryanthemum acinaciforme. ACINE'SIS («, priv., Kivim, to move). A term indicating diminished irritability of the muscles, tending to produce paralysis. See Hi/percinesis. ACINI (pi. of acimis^ a grape-stone). The minute parts of the lobules of the liver, connected together by vessels. AC'INIFORM {acinus, a grape-stone, /brma, likeness). A term applied by tlie old anatomists to the choroid, from its resemblance to the grains of the raisin. ACIPE'NSER. The Sturgeon. A genus of the seventh order ot Pisces, from which isinglass is prepared. A'CNE {uKvn. quasi uKuii, from its appearance in youth, or at the acme of the system; or from axvi), chaff, down, scurf). lonthus. Varus. A chronic inflammation of the sebiparous glands, and of their excretory hair-follicles, characterized by an eruption of hard, conical, and isolated elevations, of moderate size and various degrees of redness. The species are— 1. Ac7ie vulqaris. Stone-pock, or whelk, comiirising the species simplex, or simple ; punctata, or mnggot-pimple, or grubs; and indurata, or stone-pock, of Willan; which are mere modifications of the same form of disease. 2. Acne rosacea. Rosy drop, carbuncled face, grog-blossom, or bubukle. This is also termed BaccMa, Gutta rosacea, and, by Mason Orooil. lonHies Corymhifer. ACO'LOGY (oKos, a remedy, Xo'yo9, a description). That depart- ment of Therapeutics which relates to the consideration of remedies. By some authors the term is limited to the consideration of surgical and mechanical remedies. ACONI'TUM NAPEL'LUS. Common Monk's-hood, or Wolf's- bane; a plant of the order Ranuncidacece, and one of our most active narcotico-aorid poisons. Tlie aconiti folia of the Pharmacopaiia aj.pears to be the produce of the Aconitum paniculatum, the species intro- duced into medicine by Stocrck. 1. Aeonitic acid. . An acid obtained from species of the genus Aconi- tum. It IS also procured by the decomposition of citric acid by heat. It occurs in the form of small confused crystals. 2. Acomttn. An alkaloid obtained from the dried and bruised root