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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    been performed, or a more permanent plan of checking hsmorrhige has been adopted. TOUS LES MOIS. An article of diet, commonly called the St. Kitt's Arrowroot. It is said to be the fecula of the rhizome of the Cajina coccinea, v/\uch Rowbts everi/month, a.nd has hence received its French name. TOWEItS' SOLUTION OP CAMPHOR. A strong aqueous solution of camphor, supposed to be inidebted for its strength to the agency of carbonic acid. TOXICO'LOGY {to^ikov, a poison, Xo'yot, a description). An account of poisons, their classification, effects, antidotes, &c. See the article Poisons. TRABE'CULA (dim. of trabes, a, heum). A small beam ; a term applied to the small medullary fibres of the brain, which constitute the commissures. TRACHE'A (-rpaxtin (ipTijpta, arteria aspera, or rough artei-y). The windpipe. The term is derived from the inequality of its carti- lages. 1. Traehe ifis. Inflammation of the trachea. 2. Trachelismus. Spasm of the trachelean muscles. 3. Tracheo-toiuy (to/xi;, section). The operation of making an open- ing into the wind-pi]ie. 4. Tracli-enchyma (iyxiiui, to pour in). The vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, which resemble the trachecB of insects TRACHE'LOS (xfiaxiiX-os). Collum. Tlie Greek term for the neck. 1. Trachdo-masto'ideus. A muscle arising from the transverse pro- cesses of the last four cervical, and sometimes of the first dorsal verte- brae, and inserted into tlie mastoid process of the temporal bone. It draws the bead backward, or obliquely. 2. Truchelo-saipular. The designation of certain veins, which arise near the neck and shoulder, and contribute to form the external jugular vein. . TRACING PAPER. Paper brushed over with a thin varnish made of colourless Dammara resin, the varnish being allowed to soak through the paper without any apparent coating remaining on the surface. . , , TRA'CTUS (iraho, to draw). A drawing in length ; a region; a ^^'^l^Tractus molorius. Motor tract; the name given to the prolonga- tion of the cor|.ora pyramidalia through the pons \'arolii into the crura cerebri The motor nerves arise from this trnct. 2. Trudiis opticus. Optic tract; a flattened band, which arises from the thalamus opticus, and turns round the crus cerebri. 3 Traclus respimtorius. Resjiiratory tract; a name given by Bell to a narrow white band, which descends along the side of the medulla oblongata at the bottom of the lateral sulcus. _ , ^ , • 4. f nidus spimtis foraminulenlus. The name given by Cotunniiib to the spiriil openings at the base of the modiolus. TRA'OAC 'VNTH. A gum which exudes from several species ot Astraqaius, and is frequently called .,/«,« rf/-<,,/o«. There are two kinds ; viz iLjhiky or Smyrna, tmd the vennifonn or Morea, tragaeamb.