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

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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$Slsohromythesis, is, f. (Alaxc^^, base; ixvdn^, speech.) Pathol. A term, Gr. syn. used by Hippocrates, iii. Epid. ceyr. xi. post stat. pest, and iv. vii. 8, for the obscene language uttered by the delirious, pai'ticularly in puerperal mania, and phrenitis. Sschynomene, es, f. (AtVx ^ai, to be ashamed.) Bot. A name for the Mimosa, or sensitive plant, because it shrinks from the touch as if it were ashamed. jEsoulIcTis, a, um. Chem. See Esculic. .ZEs'ctiliii. (^scMhts,thehorse-chesnut.) Chem. Term for an alcahne principle discovered in the horse-chesnut. Mscidma, ai, f. See Diss. dio. ii. s. vi. t. 4. Fr. anal, cesculine, or esculine, f. .ffis'ciilus, i, m. (Esca, food.) A Linn, genus of plants, CI. Heptandria; Ord. Monoyynia. Juss. Hippocastancce. ^Is'ciilns Hippocastanum. Bot. Thesytematic name of the horse-chesnut tree; also called Castanea equina. .ffisecavum. Chem. An old term for brass. Hooper. .ffist'as, atis, f. (j-Estus, sultry heat.) Sum- mer ; hot scorching weather. Fr. syn. eLe, m. Germ. syn. Summer, m. .Estates. (Nom.pl. of ^sJas, summer.) Heat- spots ; freckles; sun-burnings; Pliny, xxviii. 12. See Ephelis. 5Isthesis, eos, f. (A5f(707)<Tij, from alaBduo/j.ai, to feel.) Physiol. Term for feeling or sensibility; also for sense or sensation; esthe'sis. See Diss. div. ii. s. vi. t. 5. Fr. anal, cesthesie, f. Germ. syn. Geftihl, n.; Gefuhlsvermiigen, n. jEstieterium. {Mafidvonai, to feel or per- ceive.) Anat. An old term for the Seriso- riuin. Fr. anal, cestheiere, m. Germ. syn. der Hauptsitz der Empfindung. .ffisthetica, ce, f. (AiV^acojuaj, to feel, hear-, - judge, or understand.) Physiol. The doc- trine of the understanding, or judgment; also of sensation or sensibility : esthet'ics. See Diss. div. ii. s. vi. t. 5. .Slstheticus, a, um. {AlcrB-nTiKhs, from aiVfla- vofiai, to understand.) Phyuol. Belonging, or relating to, the understanding, or mental perception; appHedto an Order (yEs(/ieiic«, nom. pi. n.) of the 01. Neurotica in Dr. Good's aiTangement: estbet'io. See yEsthetica. .Sstivalis, is, e. {.Estas, the summer.) Of . or belonging to the summer season : esti'- val. See Diss. diiK ii. s. vi. t. 5. Fr. anal. estival,a(V]. Germ.syn.zmjm Sommer gehorig; sommerlich, adj. iEstivatio, onis, f. {Mstwo, to retire to a place for the summer season.) Bot. Term for the state in which the dilTereut p.u-ts of the flower ai'e folded in tlie bud; prefloration : estiva'tion. See Diss. div. ii. s. vi. t. 5. Fr. anal, estivation, f. .ffistuarium, ii, n. the summer.) Med. Name given to a stove for api)lying dry heat to all parts of the body at once; also a vapom- bath : an es'liiary. Surg. Old name of an instrument for convening heat to any particular part of the body, in which the Longurius, in a red-hot state, was jilaced. .ffis'tus, As, m. (.\s if Ustus, from uro, to burn.) Pathol., Physiol. Heat, as well natiu'al heat in an intense degree, as that which is the effect of inflammatory disease. SeeArd ir, Calor. Fr. syn. arrfeifr, f.; chaleur,{. Germ, syn. hremiende Hitze,{.; Hitze, f; Wdrme, f. .ffis'tus Volaticus. Pathol. A flitting or in- constant heat; applied to the sudden flush- ing of the face ; also to the Strophulus vola- ticus, or wild-fire rash of childi en. X'tas, utis, f. (Cont. JEvitas, tiom csvum, an age or term of life ) Physiol. The natural life-time; age. Fr. syn. age, m. Germ. syn. Alter, n. .ffi'tas Crepita. Physiol. Decrepid age, whidi was reckoned by the ancients from the CUth year and upwards, ending in death. iE'tas Virilis. Physiol. Virile age, or man- hood, which was reckoned from the 35tli to the 50th year. JEthales. See Aeithalcs. Aetieogamius, a, um. {'A^Oris, aiiBeos, unac- customed or unusual; 70^05, marriage ) Bot. A term intended to supplant Cryptq- gamius, and applied {Mtheogamia, nom. pi. n.) to the Cryptogamia, admitting that the presence of the sexes is certain in many of the plants forming that class, though doubt as to others cannot be entirely removed: etheogam'ious. See Diss. div. i. s. v., and div. ii. s. vi. t. 5. Fr. anal, (ctherigamie, m. .ffi'ther, eris, m. air.) Chem.,M.Med., Pharm. A term for a volatile liquor ob- tained by distillation from alcohol and a concentrated acid : e'ther. The pharmaco- poeial name (L.) for ether prepared from alcohol, by the aid of sulphuric acid; (D. E.) the JEther sulphuricus. See Diss. div. ii. s. vi. (. 5. Fi'. anal, ether, m. Germ. anal. ather, m. .ffi'ther Nitrosus. M. Med. A former phanna- copicial name (D.) for an ether obtained by distilling equal weights of alcohol and con- centrated nitric acid : ni'trous e'ther. .E ther Kectificatus. M. Med. Term for snl- phuric ether which has been freed from the small portion of alcohol and sulphurous acid which it always contains, by the pro- cess of rectification : rec'tifled e'ther. .ffi'ther Sulphuricus. M. Med. The pharma- copoiial name (E. and D.) of an ether obtained from a mixture of rectified spirit and sulphuric acid: sulphu'ric e'ther; also called JEther vitriolicus; Naptha vitrioli. Fr. syn. ether sul/urique ou vitriolique. Germ. syn. SchwefeUither. .E'ther Viti-iolicus. M. Med. Another name for Sulphuric ether. See Mthcr Rectijicatus, and yEther Sulphuricus. .Ether'ea Her ba. Bot. A name for the erj'ngo, because it is of a sky-blue colour. .Ether'eal. See Ethereal. .Ether'eus, a, um. 1 {^Ether, the substtince iEther'ius, rt, MM. I ether.) Chem. Of or be- longing to, or of the nature of jEther, or ether: etlier'eal; ether'ial. See Diss. rfic. ii. s. vi. t. 5. Fr. sj n. etheri, adj. Germ. syn. (ithcrisch, adj. .Etherizatio, onis, f. S^ee Etherisation. .Eth'iops, opts, m. (.■\i'Oi'oi|(, nn Etliiope, or native of lOthiopia, a re;.;ion of Africa; or the son of Vulcan, from oWii, toburn, in refer- ence to the dark comple.Niou of Etliiopious,$