A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by the late Richard D. Hoblyn.
- Richard Hoblyn
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by the late Richard D. Hoblyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![pre-existence of parent-organisms. See Biogenesis. ABLACTA'TION {ahlaclare, to wean). This term denotes the cessation of the period of suckling, as regards the mother. The same period, with regard to the infant, is termed weaning. ABLA'TION {ablatio, the act or process of taking away). A term applied to any mode of removing tumours. Dunglison uses the term for evacuation. ABLE'PSIA {hfiK^^la, blindness, from a, priv., and ^Keira, to see). Ccccitas. Blindness ; privation of sight. A'BLUENTS {aUuere, to wash away). Detergents. Medicines formerly supposed to cleanse the blood by washing away impurities. ABNORMAL {ah, from, norma, a rule). Irregular ; that which deviates from the usual order, as the position of stamens when opposite to, instead of alternate with petals. The term anormal denotes anything that is without rule or order. ABOMA'SUM {al, from, oma- sum, the paunch). The fourth and true stomach of ruminants. ABORTION. Ahortio. The ex- pulsion of the ovum from the uterus before the sixth month of gestation! ExpulsIon~between the sixth and ninth month is called premature TaEnur. Miscarriage, as popularly understood, is the expulsion of the fojtus at any period of gestation, and in law no distinction is made between abor- tion and premature labour. Misse i Abortion. The expulsion of the ovum some weeks after its death in utero. [The term ahortio is derived from the verb ahoriri, the primary meaning of which expresses the setting of the heavenly bodies, as opposed to exoriri, to arise. Hence the term was applied to failure, as of the fcetus.] 1. Abortus. A person born prema- turely—the result of ahortio. The English confound the two words, describing both as abortion. 2. Abortive. 1. That which is brought forth prematurely. 2. That which is supposed to produce abortion ; but this is more com- monly called abortifacient. ABRA'SIO, ABRA'SUM {abra- dere, to scrape ov shave off). The former term denotes the art of abrading; the latter an abraded part or superficial excoriation with loss of substance, in the form of small shreds. A'BRIN. A poisonous proteid extracted fi'om the seeds of jequirity {ahrus precatorius). A'BSCESS {abscesstis, from abs- cedere, to separate). Apostema. An imposthume, gathering, or boil ; a circumscribed collection of pus formed or deposited in some tissue or organ. It is so named from the separation of the sides of the cavity which is produced. Where the skin is thinnest, and lluctuation most palpable, the absce.«is is said to point, or to make its point. If the pus is_absorbed. the abscess is said to be dispersed. ABSCI'SS'^ (Fr. abscisse). The transverse lines cutting vertical ones at right angles in diagrams in which the mutual connection of two series of facts is shown. (Power and Sedgwick). ABSCrSSION {ab, from, seiiido, to cut ofl'). The removal of a part by cutting. Abscission of the cornea is the removal of the cornea, with the anterior portion of the sclerotic, leaving the poste- rior portion of the eyeball as a stump for an artilicial eye. ABSENCE OF MIND. A mental phenomenon which seems](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2178047x_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
