A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by Richard D. Hoblyn.

  • Richard Hoblyn
Date:
1859
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    gether). A form of attraction, commonly called that of cohesion, by which the par- ticles of bodies are aggregated or retained in the state of a solid. AGLIA (ayMri). A whitish speck of the cornea. AGNI'NA MEMBRANA (agninus, from agnus, a lamb; membrana, a membrane). The name given by Aetius to one of the membranes of the foetus, from its tender- ness. AGNUS CASTUS. The chaste tree, a species of Vitex, formerly celebrated as an antnphrodisiac. This name has been given to Castor oil, o*r the oil of the Ricinus com- munis, from its effects upon the body and mind. AGOMPHI'ASIS (a, priv. ; yfytf-oy, a nail). Agomphosis. Looseness of the teeth ; a condition, the reverse of gom- phosis. [AGONY (aywv, a combat). The last struggle of life against death. The series of phenomena which usually precede death, and which result from the gradual and suc- cessive abolition of the functions.] AGRIA (uyptos, wild). The name under which Celsus notices the Lichen ferns, or wild Lichen, as applied to it by the Greeks, from the violence with which it rages. [AGRIMONIA EUPATORIA. Common Agrimony. A plant of the natural order Rosacea?, used in medicine as a corrobo- rant and astringent. It has also been re- commended as a deobstrucnt in jaundice, and as an alterative in diseases of the skin. The plant is given in substance, infusion or decoction; the dose of the first is a drachm.] AGRIPPA (aypa, capture; iroSj, a foot). A child born with the feet foremost. Hence the name of some celebrated Romans. [AGKYOTHYMIA (aypios, wild; 617/05, disposition). Furious insanity.] AGRYPNIA {aypa, a capture; 'twos, sleep). Watchfulness; want of sleep. AGRYPNOCOMA {aypvirvia, sleepless- ness; Kwpa, drowsiness). A lethargic state Without actual sleep. AGUE. Intermittent fever This term appears to be derived from a Gothic word denoting trembling or shuddering. AGUE CAKE'. Enlargement of the spleen, induced by ague. AGUE DROP. A solution of the Arse- nite (A Potassa, or the Liquor Potasses Ar- senitiis of the U. S. Ph. AGYRTA (ayvpts, a crowd of people), Formerly a mountebank ; a person who collected a crowd about him ; a quack. AIR (dnp, aer). In popular language, this term denotes the atmosphere, or the gaseous fluid which surrounds the earth. ALA It consists, when pure, of 20 oxygen and 80 nitrogen: it contains, however, carbonic acid, varying from 3 to 8 parts in 10,000 by weight. The term is also generally used to denote a gas, or a permanently elastic or aeriform fluid. 1. Rarefied air is that which is ex- panded, or less dense than usual. 2. Condensed air is that which is ren- dered more dense than usual by pressure. 3. Inflammable air, formerly called phlo- giston, or phlogisticated air, is a term ap- plied to hydrogen gas, owing to its inflam- mable property. 4. Vital air, formerly called dephlogis- ticated air, empyreal air, &c, is a term applied to oxygen gas, from its being in- dispensable to the maintenance of life. 5. Fixed air, formerly called mephitic air, is a term for carbonic acid, from its being found to exist in limestone, from which it may be expelled by heat. 6. Nitrous air is a term for nitric oxide, or the deutoxide of nitrogen. 7. Dephlogisticated nitrous air is a term for nitrous oxide, or the protoxide of ni- trogen. 8. Alkaline air is a term applied to Ammonia, the volatile alkali. AL. The Arabic article signifying the, prefixed to many terms formerly in use, as al-chemy, al-Jcahest, al-cohol, <fec. ALA. Awing. The name of each lateral petal of a papilionaceous corolla. 1. Ala, or pavilion. The upper and car- tilaginous part of the ear. 2. AI03 majores. Literally, larger icings; another term for the labia externa of the pudenda. 3. Alee minores. Literally, lesser wings; a name applied to the two small folds formed by the nymphae. 4. Alee Nasi. The lateral or movable cartilaginous parts of the nose. 5. Alee vespertilionurn. Literally, bats' wings; the broad ligaments situated be- tween the uterus and the Fallopian tubes. 6. Alee vomeris. Two laminaa consti- tuting the sphenoidal edge of the vomer. ALABASTER {aXdjiaarpov; derivation remote). A stone usually white, and soft enough to be scratched by iron. There are two kinds of it:— 1. Gypseous alabaster; a natural semi- crystalline sulp>hate of lime, forming a compact gypsum of common occurrence; it presents various colours, and is employed for making statues, vases, &c. 2. Calcareous alabaster. A carbonate of lime, deposited by the dripping of water in stalactitic caves, and frequently found as a yellowish-white deposit in certain
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