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

  • Richard Hoblyn
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1887
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    iEDffi'A {aldo'a, pucTencIa, from alSiis, piiclor). The pudenda. Hence, 1. jEdceo-ptosis (n-rtDiriy, lapsus). Prolapsus of ono or more of the pudenda. Sauvages and Sagar apply the term to the meatus ui-inarius, as well as to the uterus. 2. ^dceo-psophia (i|/o'^os,auoise). Flatus issuing per urethram, or per vagiuam. .^GAGKOPI'LUS {a^yaypos, a wild goat, ir7\os, hair). A ball of hair found in the stomach of goats and other animals. .^GER, u5]GR0TUS. These adjective terms agree in denoting the unsound state of a patient; the former, however, extends to both mind and body, while the latter is limited to the body alone iE'GlLOPS {a^, aly6s, a goat, io^p, the eye). AnchilojJs. An ulcer at the inner canthus of the eye, so called from the supposition that goats ai-e subject to it. ^GOBROlSICHb'PHONY {a% a goat, 0p6yxos, a bronchos, and (puvT), voice). See Auscultation. ^GO'PHONT (arf, a goat, ^(BKiij, a voice). A peculiar sound of the voice, resembling the bleat- ing of a goat, heard in certain diseases, on applying the car to the back of the chest over the bases of the lungs, as in cases of pleurisy with moderate effusion. See Ann- cultation. ^GRITUDO, ^EGROTATIO. The former term is generally used for sorrow, care, anxiety, &c. ; the latter for bodily sickness. Pro- pric ut aegrotatio in corpore, sic aegritudo in animo nomcn habet. — Cic. When Cicero says, quod minus noceant animi aegi-otationes quam corporis, ho speaks of the passions which last for some time. ^'OLIPILE (JEoU pila-, bolus's ball). A hollow metal ball with a slender pipe for the purpose of converting water into steam. AE'R (drip, depos, aer, air, the dense air which we breathe, the atmosphere). This prefix denotes the presence of air or gas in the following tenns :— 1. Aerate. To impregnate with carbonic acid gas, or fixed air, as in aerated or gas-waters. The process is termed aeration. 2. Aerial Acid. The name given by Bergmann to carbouio acid, from an idea that it entered into the composition of atmospheric air. 3. Aeri-ferous {fero, to carry). Air-carrying ; a term applied to the tubes which convey air, as the larynx, trachea, and bronclii. 4. Aeri-form (forma, likeness). Air-like ; a term applied to gaseous fluids, from their resemblance to common air. 5. Aerostatic press {crrdcri^, from 'la-Trifj.1, to make to stand). A machine for extracting the colour- ing matter from dye-woods, and similar substances, by means of the pressui'e of the atmosphere, which forces the extracting liquid through the substance, below wliich a vacuum has been formed. ^ 6. Acro-therapeia {dtpair^ia, me- dical treatment). A method of treating certain pulmonary diseases by subjecting the pa- tient to the iufiuenco of con- densed or of rarified air. 7. A'erohious, An-acrobious (0i6s, life). Terms used first by Pasteur; the former is applied to thoso bacteria which, for their proper development need oxygen, e.g. Bacillus Authracia; the latter to thoso which develop in tbo absence of oxygen, e.g. Bacterium tcrmo.
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