A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by Richard D. Hoblyn.
- Richard Hoblyn
- Date:
- 1859
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Credit: A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by Richard D. Hoblyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![processes which take place in the healing of wounds, when their surfaces unite more slowly. These are now generally com- prised under the term granulation. [ADHESIVE PLASTER. The com- mon name for the emplastrum resinoe.] [ADHESIVENESS. The quality of adhering to. A faculty producing the in- stinctive tendency to attach one's self to surrounding objects, animate or inani- mate.] ADIANTUM (a, priv.; Siaivw, to moist- en). A g^nus of Ferns, so called because they cannot easily be made wet. A. Capillus Veneris. Maiden-hair; the species from which capillaire is made. [ADIAPHORESIS (a priv.; hia<poptu>, to digest). Deficient cutaneous perspira- tion.] ADIAPHORUS (a, priv.; Sicupipei, it differs). A volatile inodorous principle extracted from tartar by distillation. ADIAPNEUSTIA (a, priv.; Sia, through; nviw, to breathe). Defective or impeded perspiration. Nearly synonymous with adiophoresis. ADIPIC ACID (adeps, adipis, fat). An acid obtained by treating oleic with nitric acid. ADIPOCIRE (adeps, fat; cera, wax). The fatty spermaceti-like substance into which muscle is converted by long immer- sion in water or spirit, or by burial in moist earth. Adipocire mineral. A fatty matter found in the argillaceous iron ore of Merthyr; it emits a slightly bituminous odor when heated. [ADIPOSE (adeps, fat). Fatty.] Adipose Membrane, or Tissue. That which encloses the adeps, or fat. ADIPO'SIS (adeps, fat). Excessive de- position, or hypertrophy of the adipose substance. ADIPSA (a, priv.; 6fya, thirst). Medi- cines which quench thirst. A term ap- plied by Hippocrates to oxymel. ADIPSIA (a, priv.; 6tya, thirst). The total absence of thirst. ADJUVANS (adjuvo, to help). A con- stituent part of a medicinal formula, de- noting ' that which assists and promotes the operation.' See Prescription. [ADMIXTURE (admisceo, to blend to- gether). The mixing of one substance with another.] ADNATA (adnascor, to grow to). Lite- rally, grown to, or adhering; a term ap- plied to the tunica conjunctiva, or external coat of the eye. This term is applied, in botany, to the anther, when it is attached to the filament by its back. [Adnate.] See Anther. ADOLESCENCE (adolesco, to grow.) The period of life in which the body has acquired its utmost development; com- mencing at puberty, and terminating, in the male, about the twenty-fifth, and in the female, in the twenty-first year. ADOPTER, or ADAPTER. \ vessel with two necks placed between a retort and a receiver, and serving to measure the length of the neck of the former. ADRAGANT, a corruption of traga- canth. [q. v.] Adragantine, see tragacanthin. [ADROBOLUM. The Indian gum-resin Bdellium.] ADULT (adolesco, to grow). That which has reached the period, when the body has acquired its full development. This extends, in the male, from the twenfy- fifth to the fiftieth year; in the female, from the twenty-first to the forty-fifth. ADULTERATION (adulter,,, to adul- terate). The mixing up noxious or inert ingredients with articles of food or medi- cine; the debasing any product of manu- facture, especially chemical, by the intro- duction of cheap materials. ADUSTION (aduro, to burn). The action of beat as applied to the bodv. AD-UTERUM. The analogue in birds of the Fallopian tubes, or of the Cornua in the Mammalia. ADVENTITIOUS (advenio, to eome to). Accidental, casual, that which is not normal; that which comes from some other person or thing; a term applied to false membranes; or opposed to the term hereditary. ADYNAMIA (a, priv.; Svvayis, power). The defect of power. [Adynamic. Deficient in vital power.] JED(EIA (aUu'lu, pudenda; from ai&ibs, pudor). The pudenda. Hence— [1. JEdoziodynia (otivvn, pain). Pain in the genital organs. [2. JEdcei-tis. Inflammation of the ge- nital organs.] 3. JEdw-ptosis (TTT&tTis, lapsus). Pro- lapsus of one or more of the pudenda. Sauvages and Sagar apply the term to the meatus urinarius, as well as to the uterus. 4. JEdce-pfiuphia (t£o0oj, a noise). [Sound produced by the escape of] Flatus from the urethra, or per vacinam. iEGAGROPILUS («!£ a goat; 'dYptos, wild; tt1\oS, a ball of hair). A hair-ball; a, concretion sometimes found in the intes- tines of the Ruminantia, &c. See Bezoar. iEGILOPS (u'/f, a goat; £>\p% the eye). Anchilops. A sore just under the inner angle of the eye, so called from the suppo- sition that goats were subject to it. .EGOBRONCHOPHONY. The bleating](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2103753x_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
