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

  • Richard Hoblyn
Date:
1858
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    V E N—V E R 635 2. Ventricidi tricornes. The three-horned ventricles ; a designation of the two lateral ventricles of the brain, from their being prolonged into certain cavities called hor?is. 3. Venlricuhts Araiitii. The ventricle of Arantius; a small cavity situated at the point of the calamus scriptorius. 4. Veniriculiis lari/nQis. The ventricle of the larynx; a depressed fossa, situated immediately above the horizontal projection of the chorda vncalis, at each side. VENTRI'LOQUISM (i,wi!!e)-, the belly, Zo^Mor, to speak). Speak- ing, as it were, from the belly; a particular modification of the voice. VENUS. The name given by the old chemists to copper. Hence the term sales veneris, a former designation of the saline combinations of coppei'. VERA'TRIA. Suhadillin. A vegetable alkaloid obtained from cebadi/la, or the seeds of the Asayreea officinalis. 1. Veratric acid. A crystalline, volatile acid, obtained from ceba- dilla. 2. Veralrin. Resin of veratria; a brown solid substance obtained from cebadilla. 3. Sales veratricB. The sulphate and tartrate of veratria, prepared by saturating veratria with sulphuric or tartaric acid. VERA'TRUM ALBUM. White Hellebore, an endogenous plant ot the order Melanthacece. The generic name veratrum appears to be denved from the blaclcness of the rhizome, quasi vere atrum. Two ^^r^?f?f wc^-^r'^'' discovered in the rhizome, viz., baryiin and jervin.. VERBA'SCUM THAPSUS. The Great Mullein or High Taper • an indigenous plant of the order Scrophutariacem. The generic term appears to be derived from the shagginess of the plants, quasi barbascum, vi/i' ^ Pishes are stupified by the seeds. VE RDIGRIS (verde-gris. Sp.). jErui/o. An impure acetate of peroxide oi copper, of a beautiful bluish green colour, formed from the corrosion of cupper by fermented vegetables. 1. Distilled verdigris. The improper name under which the green salt IS found in commerce. 2. English verdigris. A spurious kind, consisting of sulphate of copper and acetate of lead ; to make the fraud more complete, the soft mass !s mixed with the stalks of raisins. wbitb,?f^lT^'^'i / ^l® pigment, obtained by adding chalk or i,]is,',?'''''^'''''°°°f<=0PPe''in-'^qafortis. Jr llF^^^^'^.f^^^-: ^ P'^'^' P'<=P-'-<='l ^'^h in the same way as blue verdtler, the difference in colour resulting from differences ° VE'SjT^ICE r iT^'^f°J ''^ ^'''-^^ circunist nces expressecM ,fcf ^JT' ^n*' ^ ^^^ ^de of the to the s niq.,0,. obtained, ^'h:i^ unripe grapes, the\™intcsi:s:™z., '™ ^P^ '^^^ -•>''=h -f-* Tbp fjr' ''*™'**-'.(l™l'cu8, the earth-worm, ilSo,, likeness) tTmes hoVever C';' ^.T^ '^'^'''''-^ '^e intestines it soZ- ananostiiis. H is from twelve to fifteen inches in length. 2. Ascuris vermicularis. The Maw or Thread worm; the oxyuris