Adversaria medico-philologica / by W.A. Greenhill.

  • William Alexander Greenhill
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[1864-1872]
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    ayyeia peo-apdiicd, the mesenteric vessels,1 in general. ayyeta mdXoxoa, the salivary ducts.2 dyyela (nreppaTiKd, the spermatic vessels, used somewhat indefinitely, and not always in the same sense, to signify all or part of the vessels connected with the secretion of the seminal iluid in the male; applied also some- times to the female.3 Sometimes the words are used in the singular number.4 dyKUTTpoeiSrjs, anchor-shaped, is used by Rufus Ephesius5 as synonymous with dy/aipofi§7jr, and is applied to one of the processes of the scapula, probably that which is now called the coracoid process. ayuvXrj generally means (he bent arm, but sometimes the ham.6 It is also used as synonymous with ayKvXaxns,7 and is explained by Celsus8 to mean “ recenti cicatrice contractus articulus.” The word is used by Dioscorides, Lucius,9 and Galen.10 dyKv\o(3\e(j)apos means a person affected with ankyloblepharon, that is, an adhesion of the eyelids, either to each other or to the eyeball itself.11 The affection is mentioned by Aetius,12 Paulus iEgineta,13 and the author of the ‘ Introductio seu Medicus,’ attributed to Galenbut neither of these writers calls it by the name ankyloblepharon. Aetius and Pseudo-Galen call it ankylosis, and it seems doubtful whether the word dywXoPXttfiapov occurs as a substantive in any ancient author, now that it has been expunged from Celsus, where the best modern editors read dyKvXoPXecfrdpovs.16 dyKvXdyXacrcros is an adjective, and means a person affected with ankylo- glosson!6 to dyKvXdyXcoo-aov nados means the affection called anlcyloglosson, that is, an adhesion of the tongue to the adjacent parts—tongue-tie.17 The affection is mentioned by Celsus,13 but without any distinct name. dyKvXao-is is used by the author of the ‘ Introductio seu Medicus’ attributed to Galen,19 to signify what is now called ankyloblepharon. Paulus iEgineta20 uses the word as synonymous with ayuvXr], and nearly in the modern sense of ankylosis, or stiff joint.21 1 Theophilus, ‘De Corp. Hum. Fabr.’ ii. 7, § 9, p. 68, 1. 5. 2 Oribasius, xxiv. 8, § 4, tom. iii. p. 310, 1. 14, ed. Daremberg. 3 See Rufus Ephes., p. 39, 1. 21 ; p. 40, 11. 4, 7 ; Galen, ‘ De Uteri Dissect.,’ cap. 9, tom. ii. p. 900, 1. 8 ; ‘De Usu Part.,’ xiv. 14, tom. iv. p. 208, 11. 12, 16 ; p. 209, 1. 14 ; p. 210, 1. 4 ; Theophilus, ‘ De Corp. Hum. Fabr.,’ ii. 15, § 2, p. 86, 1. 9 ; Leo, ‘Consp. Medic.,’ vi. 8, in Ermerins, ‘Anecd. Med. Gr.,’ p. 195, 1. 2. 4 Galeu, ‘ De Usu Part.,’ xiv. 10, 14, tom. iv. p. 186, 1. penult. : p. 208, 1. 8 : p. 209, 1. 9. 6 P. 67, 1. penult, ed. Clinch. 6 Pseudo-Galen, ‘ Introd.,’ c. 10, tom. xiv. p. 708, 1. 4. 7 Paulus iEgineta, lib. iv. cap. 55. 8 Lib. v. cap. 18, § 28. 9 Quoted by Galen, ‘De Compos. Medic, sec. Gen.,’ vii. 6, tom. xiii. p. 968, 1. 7; p. 969, 1. i. 10 ‘Comment, in Hippocr. “De Artie.,” ’ iii. 96, tom. xviii. A., p. 623, 1. 12. 11 Celsus, lib. vii. cap. 7, § 6. 18 Tetr. ii. Serin. 3, cap. 64, p. 327, ed. H. Stepb. 13 Lib. vi. cap. 15. 14 Cap. 16, tom. xiv. p. 772, 1. 16. 15 See Kuhn’s ‘Opusc. Acad. Med. et Philol.,’ vol. ii. p. 369. 18 Aetius, tetr. ii. Serm. 4, cap. 36, p. 388, ed. II. Steph. 17 Paulus iEgineta, lib. vi. cap. 29. 18 Lib. vii. cap. 12, § 4. 19 Cap. 16, tom. xiv. p. 7 7 2, 1. 16. 20 Lib. iv. cap. 55. 21 These last words are frequently (perhaps generally) written in English, Anchy- losis, &c. (with ch), which is manifestly wrong, as the Greek letter is k, not %. The form Ancylosis, &c., is in strict accordance with the usual English inode of'spelling Greek words containing a k, but is inconvenient on account of pronunciation, the