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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    impaired, the eye withdrawing itself from the power of the will. 3. Third degree :—the magnetic or mesmeric sleep. The organs of the senses refuse to perform their respective functions, and the patient is in an unconscious state. 4. Fourth degree:—the perfect crisis or siynple somnamhulism. In this state the patient is said to wake within himself, and his consciousness returns. He is in a state Which cannot be called either sleeping or waking, but which ap- pears to be something between the two. 5. Fifth degree:—lucidity or lucid vision. This is called in France, and mostly in this coun- try, clairvoyance; in Germany, Hellsehen. In this state the patient is said to obtain a clear knowledge of his own internal mental and bodily state, is enabled to calculate with accui-acy the phenomena of disease which will naturally and inevitably occur, and to determine what are their most appropriate and effectual remedies! He is also said to possess the same faculty of internal inspection with regard to other persons who have been placed in mesmeric connection (en rapport) with him. 6. Sixth degree:—universal lucidity; in German, allgemeine KlSPIieit. In this state the lucid vision becomes gradually in- creased, and extends to objects, whether near or at a distance. ANIMAL'CULES (dim. of ani- vial). Microscopic animals. They doubtless exist in the atmosjihcre, and in all rivers and ponds; they are, besides, infusory, observed in all fluids impregnated with any animal or vegetable substance; and spermatic, in the semen of animals. See Spermatozoon. ANIMALIZA'TION. The pro- cess by which food is assimilated, or converted into animal matter. A'NIMI. A resinous substance, improperly called giMii animi, said to be obtained from the HymenoBa Courharil. A'NION {duiSv, that which goes Tip). A term applied by Faraday to the body which passes to the positive pole—to the anode of the decomposing body—as it is sepa- rated by electricity. It is, in other phraseology, the electro, negative body. See Kation. ANISCHU'EIA (a, neg., Xaxto, to check, ovpoy, urine). Incon- tinence of urine. AlSriSOMETRO'PIA (civi<ros, un- equal, fierpov, measure, Htp, eye). Unequal refraction of the two eyes. ANKYLOBLEPHARON (djKi- \ri, a noose of a cord, fi\4<papop, the eyelid). Cohesion of the eye- lids at their ciliary border; preternatm-al union of the free edges of the eyelids. See Symile- pilar on. ^ ANKYLO'SIS {dyKi\cca-i!!, from a-yKuAo'!, curved). The stiffening of a joint; a fusion or union of the ends of bones. 1. False or spurious ankylosis consists in moro or less fixation of a joint from rigidity of the surrounding soft parts. 2. Li- gamentous ankylosis signifies the union of two articular sm-faces by fibrous tissue. 3. Bony ankylosis, where the uniting medium is bone. [In correct terminology, ankylosis is a stiffening of a joint; a stif- fened joint is ankyloma. See Preface, par. 2.] ANKYRO'IDES {dyKvpouS-fis, so. dTT6c(>vcrts). An anchor-shaped off- shoot; an ancient designation of tho coracoid process of tho
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