Mayne's medical vocabulary : being an explanation of all terms ... / R.G. Mayne.

  • Mayne, R. G. (Robert Gray), 1808-1868.
Date:
1889
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    Fiat'iilent. (F/o.) Pathol. Having flatulence. Flatus. {Flo.) Wind or gaseous fluid rumbling in the stomach and bowels ; flatulency. Flaves'cent. (I'lavesco, to become yellow.) Yellowish. Flax. (Teut. Flachs.) M. Med. The Linum usitatissinmm. Fleam. (Dutch, Vlijm.) A gum lancet. Fie' men (Gk. ^Xey/xovrj.) Swelling of the ankles from over-exercise. Flesh. (Sax. Flcesc.) Anat. Tlie muscles and generally the soft i^arts of an animal. Bot. The leaves, fruit, etc., of a thick consistence, somewhat like flesh. Gdro, carnis. F., Proud. See Proud Flesh. Flex. (Flexus, bent.) To bend at a joint. Flex'ile. (Flecio, to bend.) Flex- ible ; easily Ijent. Flexion. (Same.) Anat. The act or state of bending, or being bent. Flex'or. (Same.) A bender; ajjplied to muscles. Flex'udse. (Same; terminal-osws.) Bot. Having bendings or turnings ; zigzag : flexuons. Flex'ure. (Same.) A bending ; a curvature ; a joint. Floating Ribs. Anat. The last two false ribs, whose anterior extre- mities are not connected with the rest, or with each other. Floc'ci Volltan'tes. Pathol. The imaginary objects floating before the eyes in cases of depraved sight. See MusccB Volitantes. Floccilla'tion. {Floccus, the naji of clothes.) See Carphology. Floc'culent. (Flocculus.) Contain- ing flakes, as sometimes in urine, etc. Floc'culus. {Floccus,flock of wool; j)roperly,/irt/;e/ from the A.-S. Fleogan, to fly off'.) Anat. Name applied to a long slender lobule of the cerebellum. Flooding. Obstet., Pathol. Popu- lar term for uterine haemorrhage, more particularly in connection witli jiarturition. Flo'ra. {Flos.) Bot. The plants of a country. Flo'ral. {Flos, a flower.) Bot. Be- longing to flowers. F. Leaf. The Bract. Flores 'cence. (Fldresco, to flourish.) Bot. The act of flowering compared to the act of generation in animals. Flo'ret. A little flower. Florif'6rous. {Flos ; firo, to bear.) Bot. Bearing flowers : floriferous. Flos. (*Xo6s, or 0XoOs, ancient Greek for the blossom, bloom, or freshness of a flower. A plant of the rush or reed aquatic kind, accord- ing to Herodotus.) Bot. That part of a plant, for the most part richly coloured, protecting the internal or- gans : a flower. Flos'culous. {Flosculus; terminal -osus.) Bot. Having many florets : flosculose. Flour. See Farina, Pollen. Flower. See Flos. Flowers of Sul'phur. M. Med. Sublimed sulpluu-, or the sulphur of commerce. Flu'ate. {Fluirrlc'umi&QiA.mn; ter- minal -ate.) Chem. A combination of fluoric acid with a base : fluorate. Fluctua'tion. {Fluctuo, to rise in waves.) Surg. Pathol. The undula- tion of a fluid in any cavity or tumour of the body ;—ascertained by the pro- jier application of the fingers or the hand ; or by succussion. Fluid. {Fluo, to flow.) Having jiarticles easily separable, yielding to the least ]iressure, and moving over each other in every direction. Fluidity. The quality of being fluid. Fluidrach'ma. {FliiXdus; drachma, a drachm.) Pharm. Si.xty minims : a iluid drachm. Fluidun'cia. {Fluldus; nncia, an ounce.) Pharm. Eight fluid drachms : a fluid ounce. Flu'or. {Fluo, to flow.) A flow- ing or flux. Pathol. Apjilied to a diseased condition of the mucous secre- tion on the internal surface of the vagina; which is thence increased, and assumes a whitish aj)pearauce. F. Al'bus. Pathol. Leucon-hcea, or the whites.
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