A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by Richard D. Hoblyn.
- Richard Hoblyn
- Date:
- 1859
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![ADAMANT (a, priv.: Sapdw, to subdue). The former name of the diamond. Adamantine Spar. The crystals of Co- rundum, so named from their being next in hardness to adamant. [ADANSONIA DIGITATA. The boa- bab. A plant growing on the west coast of Africa, the bark, fruit and leaves of which afford a mucilage, which is used by the natives as a remedy for fever.] [ADDEPHAGIA(af5<V, much; 0ayw, to eat). Voracity, bulimia.] ADDITAMENTUM (addo, to add). A term applied to the sutures which connect the parietal and occipital bones to the mastoid portion of the temporal. Additamentum pedum hippocampi. The name given to a bulging observed in the substance which forms the bottom of the ventricles of the brain ; it follows the di- rection of the cornua amrnonis, and is sometimes equally large. ADDITIONS (addo, to add). The trivial name applied to such articles as are added to the fermenting wash of the distiller. ABDUCTOR (adduco, to draw to). Ad- ducent. A muscle whose office is to bring one part toward another. Thus, the rec- tus internus is also called adductor oculi, from the action of this muscle in turning the eye towards the nose. Its antagonist is called abductor. ADELPHIA (a&c\(pds. a brother). Lite- rally, a brotherhood; a term applied in bo- tany to a combination of the filaments of the stamens into a single mass. Thus, if there is only one combination, as in Mal- low, the filaments are said to be mon-adel- phoua ; if there are two, as in Pea, they are di-adelphous; if three, as in some spe- cies of St. John's Wort, they are tri-adel- phous; if many, as in Melaleuca, they are called poly-adelphous. The tube formed by the union of monadelphous filaments is termed, by Mirbel, andrr.phorum. ADEMONIA (dbnpoviu, to be in despair). A term used by Hippocrates to denote anxiety, restlessness, &c. ADEN (a6ijv). A gland. Hence— [1. Adenalgia (aXycw, to suffer). Pain in a gland. [2. Adenemphraxia (tfi<j>paaaw, to ob- struct). Engorgement of a gland. [3. Adeniform (forma, form). Of a glan- dular form. [4. Adenitis. Inflammation of a gland.] [ADENO- (airjv, a gland). A prefix in many compound terms, denoting relation to, or connection with, glands.] [Adenocele (KnXn, a tumour). A glandu- lar tumour.] Adeno-graphy (ypd<po), to describe). A treatise on the glands. 3 Adenoid (elSos, likeness). Resembling a gland ; a term applied by Dr. Craigie to the flesh-like tumour of the brain. Adeno-logy (\6yog, a treatise). The doc- trine of the glands. Adeno-phyma ((f>vp.a, a suppurating tu- mour). A swelling of a gland; as it oc- curs in the liver, it is called hepatophyma; but as it occurs in the inguinal gland, it is termed bubo. \_Adeno-meningeal (unviy^, a membrane). Pinel gave this epithet to the epidemic which prevailed at Goettingen in 1710, because the seat of that fever was in the intestinal mucous membrane, and princi- pally in the muciparous glands. It is the Dothinenteritis of Bretonneau.] [Adeno-mesenteritis (picaos, midst; ev- tcjjov, intestine). Inflammation of the lym- phatic glands of the mesentery. Tabes mesenterica.] [Adeno-nervous (vtvpov, a nerve). Pinel has applied this epithet to the plague, the principal seat of which he places in the nerves and in the lymphatic glands of the arm-pit and groin.] [Adeno-pharyngitis ((papvyl;, the pharynx). Inflammation of the tonsils and pharynx.] [Adenophthalmia (ofda^ixo;, the eye). In- flammation of the glands of Meibomius. Lippitudo.~] [Adeno-sclerosis (aic'Xripos, hard). Swe- diaur has given this name to tumefactions and indurations of the glands, unaccompa- nied with pain, and which do not become scirrhus or cancerous.] ADEPHAGIA (&6ev, abundantly ; <pdyu, to eat). Voracious appetite. See Bulimia. ADEPS. Fat; animal oil. Hence, 1. Adeps prceparata. L. Prepared Lard. 2. Adeps suillus. D. Hog's lard; the fat of the Sua scrqfa ; vulgo, axungia por- cina, used in the formation of ointments, plasters, and liniments. 3. Adeps anserinus. Goose grease; for- merly used as an emollient in enemata, and as a mild emetic. 4. Adeps ovillus. Sevum, or mutton suet. ADHESION (adhcereo, to stick to). The process by which parts which have been separated, by accident or design, unite. This is owing to an intervening deposit of coagulating lymph, or albumino-fibrin, commonly called cicatrix. 1. [Adhesive inflammation.] Union b'a the first intention is a term used by Galen to express the union of surfaces, by bring- ing them into accurate contact with each other. It is now genei-ally called the pro- cess of adhesion, or adhesive inflammation. 2. Union by the second intention is a term used by the same author to denote other](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2103753x_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
