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

  • Richard Hoblyn
Date:
1858
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    VE'STIBULE {vestihulum, a threshold). A small oval cavitv of the internal ear, so named from its forming an entry to the cochlea'and semicireular canals. This term is also applied to a triangular space which separates the nymph;e from each other ^ VETA, or MAREA (sea-sickness). The vulgar name of an affec- tion prevalent in South America, and described by Lieut Smyth who experienced it in 1834, while crossing the Andes, as an acute pam passing through the temples to the lower part of ihe back of the ^'vi. vtI'? TrR'f'''S'-iWing the person affected. . J,.^ n 1 f.'- ^ standard, or small banner; a term applied to the upper petal of a papilionaceous corolla, from its erect and expanded state. ^J]^,}-^'^^^^^^'^^^^. The tear-pas«ages; a collective term for the double apparatus for the secretion anS exertion of th e^ Ea^h of them consists of the lacrymal glnnd, the puncta lacrvmalia the V Vt, , V' ^ ^ '<=™ expressing the capability yvmcil Z V^rextra-uterine or indepfndent erten e'^ r,urLrn ^' > A kind of spots, occurring in pwpura; they are larger than petechia,, and irregular in form fre from M,.r, *^ * ?>' '.I'^^-)- The hairs of the nosti-ils; so named la^itf^^ °f vitriol ; or the sp. a^theris ballam °of'ltott'^S: cot£f SeV^sirt ''^'^' ana, 16; gum ammoniac bdelUnt IVk ' 'e^'- turpentine, saffron, 3;%piritofrvender 9 iS™' ^'banum, and myrrh, ana, 5; slender, sha 4o n ed Ind ^^^ minnt^'^'^ ^vl;ich they afe hair, as epilobium hii^sutum^ ^ ^'^ ^f- ^^aggy bra,7e^S b!;;;y,:[hemtSfm'r' '''T. — intestinal canal, p eLt aurfa e^f ^ 7 the stomach and of the villosities, resembling a downy tTssul c^T °r See Ampullnta ^ ^ continually covered with fluid. VI'NCULA ACCESSO'RTA a fasciculi found in the thec^of til'fi ^''^^°^y. ^nds ; small tendinous and the edges of the tendons P^^='S between the phalanges b JJ^JI^rtt wt:td1L''.' tthe °' -^P- alcohol, &c. ' '=°n'ct of platinum black with T T