A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by Richard D. Hoblyn.

  • Hoblyn, Richard D. (Richard Dennis), 1803-1886.
Date:
1878
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    the radicle, but indifferently from any point of the surface, as in some Aracea; and in all flowerless plants. Sec Criiptogamia. ACOUSTIC NERVE (dKodo), to hear). Auditory nerve. The nerve of hearing, \\\c jwrtio mollis of the seventh pair. ACQUI'SITIVENESS {acquirere, to obtain). A term in phreno- logy indicative of a desire to possess, a ])lcasure in accumulating, with- out any definite object for such desire. It is common to man and the lower animals. Its organ is situated at the back part of the temples, or the anterior inferior angle of the parietal bone. ACRA'TIA, ACRATEI'A, ACRA'SIA (aKpa-rhe, powerless, from a, priv., and Kpdro^, strength). Allied terms denoting powerlessness, as of a nerve; also incontinence, or impotentia of the Latins. A'CRIDA (acris, pungent). 1. Substances which make a sharp impression, that may originate from an e.\cessive quantity of salts. 2. A class of topical medicines which stimulate, irritate, or inflame the living tissues, independently of any known chemical action. They are, in fact, dynamical irritants. ACRI'TICAL (a, priv., kpltikos, critical). Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as acritical symptoms, an acriticul abscess, &c. [ACROS] AKROS ((txpos). E.vtrcme. An adjective denoting the termination or c.vtremity of anything. 1. A/i!ro-i_ys<ia (/3uoi, to stop up). 1. Uncimimeision. 2. The fore- skin ; the extremity of the prepuce ; or that jiart which covers the glans penis. See Akro-posthia, of wnich the term Is perhaps a corruption. 2. Akro-cheir hand). A term used by Hippocrates to designate the fore-arm and hand. But dspoxftp is a later form for aKpa ll'® hand, whereas x**/® hieludcs the arm (Galen). Some- times it may signify the finyers. See Akro-pous. 3. Akro-chordo7t (xopSij, a string). An excrescence on the skin, with a slender base; a tumor which hangs by a pedicle; a wart with a thin neck, as distinguished from a puppijKiov, myrmecion, which has a broad base. See Myrmceia. 4. Akr-odynia (oSurt), pain). A painful affection, especially of the wrists and ankles, which was epidemic in Paris in 1828-9 ; by some it was referred to rheumatism, by others to spinal irritation. 5. Akro-ye?i (yti/enu), to produce). Point-grower; the name of a plant which grows only at its point or top, as a fern-tree. It is dis- tinguished from an e.vo-ycn, which grows by deposition on the eaterior, and from an etulo-ycn, which grows by deposition towards the interior, of its trunk. See Cryptogaviia. 8. Akr-olein (iXaiov, oleum, oil). A limpid liquid of a highly pun- gent odour, obtained by the dehydration of glycerine. 7. Akr-olenion (wXti/i/, the cubit). The upper extremity of the ulna ; the point of the elbow ; a term synonymous with olecranon. 8. A^r-omm/i ((ouos, the shoulder). A Hippocratic term denoting the largeprocess which terminates the spincof the scapula—the outer extremity of the shoulder-blade; the top of the shoulder. In a horee, the withers. 9. Akr-omphalion (dM</)u\ds, umbilicus). The extremity or middle of the umbilicus, or navel. 10. Akrn-paJhia(Trddos, disease). A disease at any extremity of the body. Hippocrates applies this term to disease of the'internal orifice of the uterus, and to cancer.