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

  • Richard Hoblyn
Date:
1859
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    [Arrow-root, Florida. Fecula of the Zamia integrifolia or Z. pmnila.] ARSENICUM (apccuiKdv, masculine ; an ancieut epithet, denoting strong and acri- monious properties). Arsenic; a brittle metal of a bluish-white colour. 1. Arsenious Acid. This compound, frequently called white arsenic, and white oxide of arsenic, is prepared by digesting the metal in dilute nitric acid. It is well known as a violent poison. Its salts are called arsenites. 2. Arsenic Acid. The compound which results from the further acidification of the arsenious with nitric acid. Its salts are called arseuiates. 3. Fly Powder. Poudre a mouches. A black powder, formed by the exposure of the metal to a moist atmosphere. It is generally regarded as a mixture of white oxide and metallic arsenic. 4. Fuming Liquor of Arsenic. A co- lourless, volatile liquid, which fumes strongly on exposure to the air. It is the sesqui-chloride of arsenic; and is formed by throwing powdered arsenic into chlo- rine gas. 5. Realgar. Ruby or Red Arsenic ; the protosulphuret. It occurs native, and may be formed by heating arsenious acid with about half its weight of sulphur. 6. Qrpiment. Yellow arsenic; the ses- qui-sulphuret. It occurs native, and may be formed by fusing together equal parts of arsenious acid and sulphur. It con- stitutes a well-known paint, and is the colouring principle of the pigment called kitty's yellow. 7. Scheele's Mineral Green. A well- known pigment, consisting of arsenite of copper, or the combination of the arsenious acid with oxide of copper. 8. Liquor Arsenicnlis. A pharmaco- poeia! preparation, called Fowler's solution and Tasteless Ague Drop, consisting of arseniate of potash dissolved in water, and flavoured and coloured by spirit of lavender. 9. Pale Arsenicale. A remedy used in France, consisting of cinnabar, [70 parts,] sanguis draconis, [22 parts,] and arseni- ous acid, [8 parts,] made into a paste with saliva. ARSENOVINIC ACID A new acid produced by the action of arsenic upon alcohol. [ARTANTE ELONGATA. The sys- tematic name for the Matico plant, an effi- cient hemostatic] ARTEMISIA. A genus of plants of the order Composite. The species Chinensis, Indica, and Vulgaris, yield the substance called moxa, which is prepared by beating 5* the tops of these plants in a mortar, until they become like tow. [Artemisia Absinthium. The systematic name for the plant wormwood, well known as a tonic] Artemisia Dracunculus. Tarragon; a plant which is used to impart a peculiar stimulating flavour to vinegar. [Artemisia Santonica. Tartarian south- ern wood. Under the name of semen contra, seeds supposed to be of this plant are cele- brated as a vermifuge. The dose of the powder is from gr. x. to gr. xxx.] ARTERIA (afip, air; rrjpio), to hold). A vessel which carries the blood from the heart; formerly supposed, from its being found empty after death, to contain only air. 1. Arteria innominata. A trunk arising from the arch of the aorta. 2. ArtericB helicincB. The name given by Miiller to one set of the arterial branches of the corpora cavernosa penis. They come off from the side of the arteries, and consist of short, slightly-curled branches, terminating abruptly by a rounded, appa- rently closed extremity, turned back some- what on itself: these are sometimes single; sometimes several arise from one stem, forming a tuft. 3. ArtericB Venosas. The four pulmo- nary veins were so called, because they contained arterial blood. 4. Arterial Circle of Willis. This is formed by branches of the carotid and ver- tebral arteries at the base of the brain. 5. ArteHalization. The conversion of the venous into the arterial blood ; a term applied to the change induced in the blood as it passes through the lungs, by the evo- lution of carbonic acid, and the abstraction of oxygen from the air. 6. Arteritis. Inflammation of an artery or arteries. 7. Arteriotomy (rofiri, a section). The opening of an artery to let blood, generally the temporal. 8. [Arteria aspera. The rough artery; the trachea, so called from the inequalities caused by cartilaginous rings which enter into its structure.] ARTHANATIN. A name applied by Saladin to a colourless crystalline matter, which is extracted by alcohol from the tuberous stem of the Cyclamen Europceum, or Sow-bread. Arthritis. See Arthron. ARTHRON (apBpov). A joint. Hence— 1. Arthr-itis. Podagra, or Gout. Cor- rectly, inflammation of a joint. 2. Arthro-dia. A kind of shallow arti- culation, as that of the humerus with the glenoid cavity.
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