An expository lexicon of the terms, ancient and modern, in medical and general science; including a complete medico-legal vocabulary / by R.G. Mayne.
- Mayne, Robert Gray, 1808-1868
- Date:
- 1860
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![OS ASTRONOMY—ATHENA. peels, and relative position, thus constitut- ing what was called judicial astrology. For- merly, it formed a prominent part of medi- cine ; a person's temperament was held to be determined by the planet under ■which he was born, and the virtues of herbs, gems, and medicinal substances, were be- lieved to be attributable to the influence of their ruling planets. Fr. anal, astrologie, f. Germ. syn. Astrologie., f.; Sterndeutekimst, f. Astron'omy. {^ka-rpov, a star; vS/xos^ a law.) Nat. Philns. Term for that branch which treats of the heavenly bodies. Astrunomia, <s, f. Fr. anal, astronomic, f. Germ. syn. Himmelskundc, f.; Sternkunde, f. Astron'omy, Phys ical. Nat. Philos. Term for that division of astronomy which investi- gates the causes of the motions, etc. of the heavenly bodies. Astron'omy, Plane. ] Nat. Philos. Terms for Astron'omy, Pure, j that division of astro- nomy which determines the magnitudes, or- bits, distances, etc., of the heavenly bodies. As'trum Duplicatum. Med., Pharm. Term for a medicine to which great virtues were formerly attributed ; composed of the tinc- tures of antimony, and coral, essence of am- ber, and musk. Asturian Rose. Bot. See Mai de la Rose. Asugar. (Arab.) Chem. An old name for vei'digris. Quincy. Asul'ci. Chem. Old name for the Lapis la- zuli, or azure-stone. Euland, and Johnson. Asuoli. (Arab.) Old name for Fuligo, or soot; fi\so iov Atramentum, or lak. Ruland, and Johnson. Atac. Chem. Old name for talc, or nitre. Ruland, and Johnson. Atax'ia, m, f. ('A, neg.; raaaoi, to order.) Med., Pathol. A term for irregularity; want of order: atax'y. Fr. anal, ataxie, f. Germ. syn. Unordnung, f. Atax'ic. {Ataxia, want of order; terminal -icus.) Med., Pathol. Of or belonging to ataxy, as occurring in the progress of dis- eases, or in the natural animal functions; irregular. Ataxicus, a, um. See Diss. div. ii. s. vi. t. C. Fr. anal, ataxique, adj. Germ, syn. unordentlich, adj. Ataxmir. (Arab.) Med. A term used by Albucasis to signify the treatment of a dis- ease of the eye, arising from the presence of supernumerary eye-lashes growing un- der the natural ones. Ataxo-Adynam'ic. {'Arabia, a disorder ; aSv- va/xia, debility ; teraiinal -iKhs.) Pathol. A term applied by tlie Frcncli to typhus fever, fievre ataxo-adynamiqve. Ataxo-adijndm'icus, a, um. See Diss. div. ii. s. vi. t. (I. Atchar. Name for a condiment used in In- dia, composed of several green fruits, garlic, ginger, pimento, and mustard, pickled in vinegar. •Ate. Chem. A terminal syllable which, added to the name of an acid ending in the syllable -ic, expresses a combination of that acid with a salifiable base; as nitrate of silver, or a combination of nitric acid with the salifiable base silver. Atebras. (Arab.) Chem. Ancient name for a subliming vessel. Ruland. Atech'nia, a, f. ('A, priv.; rix^r), an art.) Med. Want of art; Hippocrates, de Ait. vii. 5. Pathol. Used by Lindenus, S. M. Ex.'m. % 22, the same as Anaphrodisia; and as Agonia, according to F. Platerus, Prax. ii. 19. See Atecnia. Fr. anal, atcch- nie, f. Germ. syn. Unfruchtbarkeit, f. Atec'nia, a, f. (^Atskvos, without offspring; sterile.) Physiol. An old tenxi for the want of children, or of the power to procreate. See Apkrodisia, Atechnia, Atocia. Fr. anal. atecnie, f. Germ. syn. Unfruchtbarkeit, f. Atelec'tasis, is, f. ('AteAtjs, imperfect; eKraais, expansion.) Physiol. A term applied to a state of the lungs, Atelectasis pulvionum, such as exists in the fetus, occurring in new-born children, and also met with to a partial extent, in infancy ; it is produced by some obstacle to the complete establish- ment ot respiration. Atelocheil'ia, ce, f. ('AtcAVj imperfect; x^*- Aos, the lip.) Physiol. A term for imper- fect development of the lip. Ateloencephal'ia, le, f. ('AreA^jr, imperfect; iyKe<paKos, that which is in the head, here meaning specially the brain.) Physiol. A term for imperfect development of the brain. A'ter, tra, trum. Chem., Nat. Philos. Of the deepest black colour. Fr. syn. noire, adj. Germ. syn. schwarz, adj. A'ter Suc'cus. Pathol. Black juice, an old term for Melancholia, and Atra bilis. Athaman'ta, ce, f. {Athamas, a moimtain of Thessaly, where it was first found.) A Linu. genus of plants. Class Pentandria; Ord. Digynia. Juss. Apiacea. Athaman'ta Creten'sis. Bot. The systematic name of the Daucus Crcticus, or Candy car- rot, brought from the isle of Candy; it is aromatic, has a slightly pungent flavour, and is employed as carminative and diuretic. Athaman'ta Me'um. Bot. A name for the Aithusa meum, or baldmoney. Athaman'ta Oreoselinum, Bot. The system- atic name for the black mountain parsley; also called Daucus alsaticus, Daucus vion- tanus, Daucus selenoides; fonnerly used, and highly esteemed, as aperient, attenuant, deobstrueut, and lithontriptic; an oil dis- tilled from the seed fonned a remedy in toothache. Athaman'ticus, a, um. (Atlmmas, a moun- tain of Thessaly; terminal -Jcus.) Of or belonging to Athamas: athaman'tic. See .^thusa meum, Meum Athamanticum. and Diss. div. ii. s. vi. t. 0. Athanas'ia, ce, f. QkOavacria, immortality.) Med., Pharm. An old term, Gr. anal, a&av- aala, applied by Galen, de C. 31. sec. hoc. \m, 7, etc., to various antidotes, meihcaments, compositions, etc.; also to tansy, because, when stufl'ed in tlie nostrils of a coqise, supposed to binder putrefaction; also a Linn, genus of plants, CI. Syagenesia ; Ord. Poly- gamia aqualis. Fr. anal, athanasie, f. Atha'nor. (Arab.) Clwm. Name for a kind of digesting furnace used by the alchemists. Pailand, I,ibavius, etc. Athena, «,f. ('AeTji-o, Minerva.) Med.,Pharm. Ancient name, Gr. anal. a.dr}va, for a higlily reputed plaster composed of oxide of cup-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21462124_0126.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
