A compendious medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, physiology, surgery, materia medica, chemistry, and practice of physic - collected from the most approved authors / by R. Hooper, M.D.

  • Robert Hooper
Date:
1798
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    part’ Carned lnt0 the inteflinum duodenum. The other part regurgitates through the cyftic du£t into the vefica feats, or gall-bladder. Thus there are two kinds of bile- e one wh.ch flows from the liver into the duodenum, is ermed hepatic bile; this is thin, inodorous and flightly bit- tet : the other, which regurgitates from the hepatic duft into gall-bladder, and there becomes thicker and more acrid, is called cyji,c bile. Bile is a fluid of conliderable importance «n the animal economy ; it extricates the chyle from the chyme, excites the periftaltic motion of the inteftines, and prevents the abundance of mucus and acidity in the prim* vise. r Biliari di cts. The very vafcular glomeruli, or acini biliojl, which compcfe almoft the whole fubftance of the liver ter minate m very fmall canals, called biliary whi^ at ength form one trunk, the duties hepatic*,. Their ufe is to convey the bile, fecreted by the liver, into -he hepatic du* Btuous. A term very generally made ufe of, to expreft ritfcafes which arife from too copious a fecretion of bile. Bismuth. Tin glafs. A femimetal of a yellowifh white ] COl°Ur; VerT Ponderous, and difpofed in very large P It is found at Scala, in Neritia, in Dalecarlia, and at Schneeberg in Germany. Palyz°mm bijltrta of Linnaeus. A f 'V ° . n am' E'ery part of the P'ant manifefts a degree of ft'Pticity to thetafle, and the root is efleemed to be ole of the molt powerful of the vegetable adflringents B'tumeks. Bitumens are combuftible, folid, foft, or fluid fubftanccs, whofe fmell is flrong, acrid, or «. They are found either in the internal part of the earth, or exudJ through the clefts of rocks, or floating on the furface of Z ■ Like oi,s they burn with a rapid flam Natural hifto- uns have divided them into feveral genera ; but modern che- tfts arrange them according to their chemical properties, and only acquainted with fix fpecies, which are very diftinrt from