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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![BUNION—BURNT BRASS. Ill Bunion. (Jioinou, a kind of turnip; from Suvvhs, a little hiU; because of its round prominent form.) Surg. Tenn for an in- flammation (or rather its effects) of the bursa mucosa, at the ball of the great toe ; causing a thickening and indmation of the adjacent parts, an enlargement of the bones of the joint, and in process of time a kind of subluxation. Bunites Yinum. Name for wine made of Bu- nium and must. Bunium, ii, n. {Bovvhs, a little hill; from its tuberous root.) A Linn, genus of plants, C\. Pentandria ; Old. Digtjnia. This word was anciently applied as a name of the turnip; and has since been employed to designate several plants; also a name for the wild parsley, according to Quincy. Buuium Bulbocas'tanum. Bot. The system- atic name of a plant the root of which is named earth-nut, hawk-nut, kipper-nut, and pig nut; it is as large as a nutmeg, hard, tuberous, whitish, nuUitious, and has a sweetish taste ; it has been supposed useful against strangury and bloody urine. See Ayriocastanum,Bulhocastancum,Balanocas- tanum. Bupei'na, a, f. (Bo5, a particle of excess; TTciVa, hunger.) Pathol. Another tenn for Bulimia, or voracious hunger. Fr. syn. hou- limie,i. Germ. syn. Heisshunger,m.; Hun- ger, m. Buphthal'mia, <e, f. Pathol. The same ety- mology and meaning as Btiphthalnms. Buphthal'mum, i, n. (BoGj, au ox ; 6(p9a\iJ.6s, an eye; from the fancied resemblance of its flower.) A Linn, genus of plants, CI. Syn- genesia ; Ord. Polygamia Superjiua. Juss. CorymbifercB. The plant ox eye. Fr. anal. buphthalme, ra. Genn. syn. Bindauge, n. Buphtharmom Creticum. Bot. A name for the Anthemis pyrethi-um, or pellitory of Spain. Buphthal'mum Germamcum. \Bot. Names for Eaphthal'mum Majus. J the Chrysanthe- mum leucantliemum, or great ox-eye daisy. Buphthal'mum Oleraceum. Bot. Name of a plant said to be used as a pot-herb in Cochin China. Buphthal'mum Saliciforium. Bot. Name of a plant said to be slightly narcotic, and the leaves of which are used in Persia as tea. Buphthal'mum Spinosum. Bot. Name of the plant supposed to be the Hyophthalmus, or hog's eye. Buphthal'mus, i, m. (BoOj, an ox; o(pea\fihs, the eye ; because of its enlai'gement.) Pa- thol., Surg. Term for the first stage of Hydrophthalmia, or dropsy of the eye: ox- eye. Fr. anal, buphthalmie, f. Germ. syn. Ochsenauge, n. Bnpleurlneus, a, urn. (Bupleurum, herb hare's ear.) Bot. Having an arrangement of parts, as in the Bupleuron applied to a division of a Family [Bupleurinece, nom. pi. f.) of umbelliferous plants, of which it is the type: bupleureneous. Bupleuroides, adj. {Bupleurum, the herb hare's ear; terminal -Ides.) Bot. Like the Bu- pleurum, or hare's ear, applied as a name for the Bupleurum, rotundij'olium. Bupleuron, Bot. See Bupleurum Rotuiidi- folium. Bupleu'rum, i, n. (BoC, intensive; irMvphv, a rib ; from its leaves having large ribs.) A Linn, genus of plants, CI. Syngenesia ; Ord. Polygamia superjiua. Juss. Bupleurineoe, The herb hare's ear. Fr. anal, buplevre, m.; Voreille de lievre. Germ. syn. Hasenohr- lein, n. Bupleu'rum Kotundiforium. Bot. The sys- tematic name of the rouud-leaved hai-e's ear; also called Bupleuroides, Bupleuron, and PerfoUata; formerly celebrated for curing ruptures. Bupres'tis. Entomol. (BoD, an augmentative particle; or, fiovs, an ox; and Trfi-fidw, to inflame; because if eaten among the grass, by cattle, it kills them.) Name of an in- sect, Gr. anal. ^ouirpriaTts, used by Galen, de Simpl. Med. Temp, ac Fac. xi. ], § 45, vol. xii. p. 305, ed. Kiihn, resembling the Can- tharis; supposed to be the Myldbris ci- chorii. Bur. Bot., Mineral., Physiol. Old term, used by Helmontius, tr. Elementa, n. 13, for a supposed mineral juice, or seminal liquor originating in putrefied water, and causing the generation of plants ; it was called the first issue, stock, or generation of minerals. The common name for the rough head of the Arctium lappa. Burac. Chem. Old term for Borax, and for aU kinds of plants. Ruland. BurTjot. Ichthyol. Common name of the Gadus lota. Bur'dock. M. Med. The common name for the plants Arctium lappa, and Lappa ruinur. Fr. syn. bardane, f. Germ. syn. Kletten- distel, n.; Klettenhraut, n. Bur'dock, Les'ser. Bot. Common name for the Xanthiwii strumarium. Bur'gundy Pitch. M. Med. The Fix Bur- gimdica of the pharmacopoeias, (E.D.) or Fix abietina, (L.) a concrete resinous sub- stance obtained by exudation from incisions through the bark of the Pinus dbies, or the Abies excelsa. Fr. syn. poix de Burgogne. Germ. syn. Burgundisches Pech. Borina. Old name for Pix, or pitch. Euland. Buris. Pathol. Old name, used by Avicenna, iii. fen. 2, tr. I, c. 3, for what was called a scirrhous hernia, which probably meant a sciiThous enlargement and induration of the testicle. Bum. (Sax. Bcernan, to scorch with heat.) Pathol., Surg. A lesion of some part of the body, of greater or less extent, caused by the application of heat. Ambustio, unis, f. See Catacauma, Encausis. Fr. syn. brulure, f. Geim. syn. Brand, m.; Verbrennung, ft Bur'net. Bot. Common name for the Potertunt sanguisorba. Bur'net Sax'ifrage. Bot. Common name for the Pimpinella saxifraga. Bura'ing. (Sax. Bairuan, to scorch with heat.) Pathol. An old English name for Gonor- rhma; also called Bren?ijn^. Fr.syn. 6?-wZu.re, f. Germ. syn.-Brand, m.; Verbrennung, i. Burnt. (Sax. jBtBTOan, to scorch with heat.) See Adustus. Biu'at Brass. Chem. See .^s Ustum.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21462124_0169.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
