A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by Richard D. Hoblyn.
- Richard Hoblyn
- Date:
- 1859
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![measurement of the strength of acids. A given weight of an acid substance is satu- rated by an alkaline base, the quantity of which, requisite for this purpose, is the measure of its power. 6. Acidulous. Slightly acid ; a term ap- plied to those salts in which the base is combined with such an excess of acid that they manifestly exhibit acid properties, as the supertartrate of potassa. ACINACIFORM [acinaces, a scimetar; forma, resemblance]. Scimetar shaped; plane on the sides, with one border thick, the other thin, as the leaves of mesembry- onthemura acinaciforme. ACINESIA (a, priv., Ktviu), to move). Acinesis. Loss of motion. ACINI (pi. of acinus, a grape-stone). The minute parts of the lobules of the liver, connected together by vessels. Aciniform, (forma, likeness). A term applied by the old anatomists to the cho- roid, from its resemblance to the grains of the raisin. ACIPENSER. The Sturgeon. A genus of the seventh order of Pisces from which isinglass is prepared. See Zoology. [ACME (aKfxr), a point). The top or height of any thing. In pathology, the utmost height of a disease. The ancients distinguished diseases into four stages : 1. A-PXV, the commencement; 2. avaj3aas. the period of increase; 3. aKp.rj, the height; 4. HapaKfir], the decline.] ACNE (ukvij, qmasi aKjirj, from its appear- ance in youth, or at the acme of the sys- tem; or from a^yn, chaff, down, scurff). Stone-pock, maggot pimple, or whelks; tubercular tumors slowly suppurating, chiefly occurring on the face. 1. A. Simplex. Simple pimple. 2. A. Punctata. Maggot pimple. Grubs. 3. A. Indurata. Stone-pock. 4. A. Rosacea. Rosy drop. Carbun- cled face. The Gutta rosea, or rosacea. ACOLOGY (Skos, a remedy, \oyo;, a de- scription). That department of Therapeu- tics which relates to the consideration of remedies. By some authors the term is limited to the consideration of surgical and mechanical remedies. [ACONDYLUS (a, priv., kovSvXos, a joint). Without joints.] [ACONITE. The plant Aconitum na- pellus, q. v.] ACONITUM NAPELLUS. [Aconite.] Common Monk's-hood, or Wolf's-bane; a plant of the order Ranuncxdaceae, and one of our most active narcotico-acrid poisons. [The U. S. and British Pharmacopoeias ac- knowledge now as officinal only the A. na- pellus, though some writers suppose the Aconitum paniculatum, to be the species introduced in medicine by Stoerck.] priv.; Korrog, against fatigue. Sourness, acri- In- 1. Aconitic acid. An acid obtained from species of the genus Aconitum. It is also procured by the decomposition of citric acid by heat. It occurs in the form of small confused crystals. 2. Aconitin, aconitia, aconitina. An al- kaloid obtained from the dried and bruised root and leaves of several species of aconite. It is in the highest degree poisonous. ACOPA, ACOPUM, (a, fatigue). Medicines Celsus. [ACOR (acer, sharp) mony, q. v.] ACORIA (a, priv.; xopew, to satisfy) satiable hunger. ACORUS CALAMUS. Common Sweet Flag; a plant of the order Aroidem, yield- ing the calamus aromaticus. ACOTYLEDONES (a, priv.; kotv^SHv, a seed-lobe). Acotyledonous plants ; plants whose embryos have no cotyledons, or seed- lobes. But the acotyledonous embryo is not exactly, as its name seems to indicate, an embryo without cotyledons; for, in that case, cuscuta would be acotyledonous. On the contrary, it is an embryo which does not germinate from two fixed invariable points, namely, the plumule and the radi- cle, but indifferently from any point of the surface, as in some Araceae, and in all flowerless plants. [ACOUMETER (clkom, to hear; iterpov, a measure). An instrument devised by Itaxd for measuring the degree of hearing.] [ACOUOPHONIA. Cophonia. (From aKovw, to hear; tyutvn, voice). A mode of auscultic investigation in which the ob- server places his ear to the chest and ana- lyses the sounds produced by percussion of the surface. Donn6.~\ ACOUSTIC (Zkovu, to hear). Relating to the hearing, as the nervus acousticus vel auditorius—the portio mollis of the seventh pair. See Auditory. [ACQUISITIVENESS (acquiro, to ob- tain). The faculty producing the tendency to acquire property, and the desire to pos- sess in general.] [ACRANIA (a, priv.; icpavtov, cranium). Deficiency of cranium.] [ACRID. A term given to substances which produce, in the organs of taste, a burning and irritating sensation.] [ACRIMONY. Humorum acrimonia, acrimony of the humours. A supposed change in the fluids which was conceived to exist in all diseases. Sylvus de la Boe, Professor at Leyden, the author of this hy- pothesis, was of opinion that there were two species of acrimony, one acid, the other alkaline.] [ACRINIA (a, priv.; npivw, to separate).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2103753x_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
