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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An expository lexicon of the terms, ancient and modern, in medical and general science; including a complete medico-legal vocabulary / by R.G. Mayne. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Calen'dula Arven'sis. Bot. Another name for the Caltha arvensis, or wild marigold. Fr. syn. le soiici des jardins. Germ. sj'n. Feld- ringelhlume, f. Calen'dula Officinalis. Bot., Med. The sys- tematic name of the garden marigold; called also C. sativa, Chrysanthemum, Caltha vul- garis, and Sponsa solis; the flowers have been used as aperient in uterine obstruc- tions and icteric diseases, and as diaphoretic in exanthematous fevers; the leaves as gently aperient, and to promote the secre- tions. I'r. syn. souci des champs. Germ, syn. die gewohnliche Ringelhlume. Calen'dula Palus'tris. Bot. Another name for the Caltha palustris, or single marsh marigold. Fr. syn. souci d'eau. Germ. syn. Dotterblume, f. Calenturas. Bot. A name for Cinchona, ac- cording to some; others state it to be the name of a tree in the Philippine islands, the bark of which is very bitter and em- ployed as febrifuge. Calen'ture. {Crdeo, to be hot.) The name for a disease formerly common to sailors on their voyage to the East Indies as they approached the tropics; consisting in de- praved imagination, weak pulse, equal, soft without fever and with reduced heat; in their delirium, the patients, it is said, fancied the sea to be green fields, and were ready to leap into it, if not withheld: supposed to be a form of Phrenitis, but not now dis- tinguishable. Bonettus, 3Ied. Septentr. i. §. 6, c. 2, p. 83. Ccdentura, ce, f. Fr. anal. calenture, f. Cales'ium. Bot. Name of a tree which grows in Malabar, the bark of which, made into an ointment with butter, cures convulsions from wounds, and heals ulcers; the juice of the bark cures aphthce, and, taken in- wardly, dysentery. Caleza de Nigro. Bot. A name for the genus Phytelephas. Calf. Zobl. See Vitulus. Calf of the Leg. Anat. See Sura, Gastrocne- mius. Calf's-Snout. Bot. Vulgar name for the genus Antirrhinum. Fr. syn. mufle de veau, m. Cali. (Sax. Cealf.) See Kali. Cal'idum Innatum. Physiol. An old and falsely constructed term for animal, or vital heat, calidum being the neuter of the ad- jective calidus, hot. Cal idus, a, urn. (Ciileo. to be hot.) Warm ; cal'id. Physiol. Sometimes, but improperiy, used in the neuter, tis a substantive signify- ing heat, as calidum innatum, innate or animal heat, or the Vis vitcB. Calieta, | Bot. Name, by Paracelsus, for the Caliette. ) joimg fungi growing on juniper bushes, lluland, and Johnson. Caligo, tnis, f. (Cuhyo, to make dark, or dim.) Dimness ; darkness ; obscurity. Pathol. Term for dimness of sight, approaching im- perceptibly and without a])p:u-ent cause; blitulness; a genus of the Ord. Byscesthe- sice; CI. Lo(?aie«, of Cullen's Nosology. See Scotns, Znphos. Fr. anal, caliyo, f. Caligo Cor'neae. Pathol. Term for a species caused hy opacity of the cornea, etc. Caligo Humorum, Pathol. A term for a species arising from the aqueous or viti'eous humour having lost its transparency. Caligo Len'tis. Pathol. Term for a species, produced by the opaque condition of the lens, or its capsule. Caligo Palpebrarum. Pathol. Term for a species of this disease, when the obstruction to light depends on the state of the eyehds. Caligo Papil'laB. Pathol. Term for a species depending on the iris being fixedly con- tracted, or closed. Calisaya Bark. ML Bled. Common name for the Cinchona flava. Calleca'menon. Chem. Old term for burnt copper, or the oxide of copper. Quincy. Callena, ce, f. Chem. Old name for a kind of nitre, or saltpetre. Paracelsus. Eulaud, and Johnson. CaUible'pharum, i, n. (KaAJis, beautiful; (papov, the eyelid.) Pharm. Old name, Gr. anal. Ka\\i§\4(papov, used by Galen, de C. M. sec. hoc. iv. 6, for a medicine for beautify- ing the eyelids. Calliear'pa. (KoAJis, beautiful; Kop7r?)y, fruit.) A Linn, genus of plants, CI. Tetrandia; Ord. Monogynia. CaUiear'pa Americana. Bot. The only species of this genus, growing in South CaroHna and Virginia; the leaves of which are used in dropsy. Callicoc'ca, ce, f. A Linn, genus of plants, CI. Pentandria; Ord. Monogynia. Juss. Cin- choiiacecB. Callicoc'ca Ipecacuan'ha. M. Bled. A name for the plant which affords the Ipecaouan root; now called Ccphaelis ipecacuanha ; the root is named Radix Brasiliense, R. In- diana. Calli'creas, atis, n. {Ka\hs, good; Kpeas, meat, or flesh.) Old name for the pancreas of certain of the lower animals, from its de- licacy as food; the sweetbread. Calli'gonum, i, n. {Ka\bs, beautiful; ySvu, a joint; from its being handsomely knotted like a cane.) Bot. A name for Polygonum, or knot-grass. Calliomar'clius. Bot. Said to be the Gallic name for the Tussilago farfara,or colt's-foot. Callipae'dia, ce, f. (KaAbj, beautiful; Trarj, a child.) Physiol. A foolish tenn intended to denote the art of begetting beautiful children; it neither means that art, how- ever, nor, as Hooper states simply, the circumstance of having them, but only their existence. Fr. anal. callipklie,{. CalUphyl'lum, i, n. (Ka\c<s, beautiful; (piwov, a leaf.) Bot. A name for the herb Asple- nium trichomanes, spleenwort, or common maiden hair. Calli triche, es, f. (Ka\hs, beautiful; epl|, the hair.) A Linn, genus of plants, CI. Mn- nandria; Ord. Digynia. Water chick- weed, or water star-wort. Also, a name for the genus Adiantum, or maiden hair. Callitrichon. The same as Callitriche. Callosity. {Galium, hardness ) Bled. A term for a ])reteniatural degree of hardness in the skin (U- naturally soft parts. Callvsitas, atis, f. Fr. anal, callositi, f. Germ. syn. Sitzschwitk, f.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21462124_0178.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
