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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    DICTIONARY OF MEDICAL TERMS. A—A B D A (a). In words of Greek derivation beginnine with a consonant, this letter is employed, as a prefix, in a privative sense, as in a-cepha- lous, headless, a-phonia, voicelessness. In words beginning with a vowel, the a becomes an, to prevent the hiatus, as in an-encephalia, brainlessness. A A (contracted from ava), 'of each;' an expression used in pre- scriptions, to denote that an equal quantity of two or more substances is to be employed. AAA. A chemical abbreviation for amalqama, amalgamate. ABAPTI'STON (a, priv., /SmrTi'^u), to plunge). The peiforating part of the trephine, which had formerly the figure of a truncated cone, to prevent its sudden rplaiiyiny into the brain. ABBREVIA'TION {a/jbrevio, to shorten). The act of shortening, as of ivords and phrases in chemical language, by omitting some letters or words, or by substituting some arbitrary mark. Thus Aq. stands for Aqua, water; Aq. dest., for Aqua destillata, distilled water; S' or Sul', or Carb', P' or Phosp', O' or 0.x'. A' or Acet', N' or Nitr', M' or Mur', or Tar', C or C'it', for the sulphuric, carbonic, phosphoric, oxalic, acetic, nitric, muriatic, tartaric, and citric acids, respectively. So P. or Pot. stands for potassa; So. fur soda; Am. for ammonia; Nitr. A rg. for nitrate of silver; Sulph. Hydr. for sulphuretted hvdro- gen ; &c. Abbreviations have no connexion with symbols or with the composition of chemical bodies. Sec Prescription. ABDO'MEN (alido, to hide ; or abdo and omentum). The belly, or the cavity situated between the thorax and the pelvis; so called from Its contammg the intestines, &c. ABDO'iMlNAL REGIONS. The Abdomen is distinguished into three transverse zones,—an upper, a middle, and a lower. Each zone B
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