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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    pressure; a simple method of arresting ha>morrhage from wounded or cut arteries by the pressure of a needle passed across their course. ACUPU'NCTURE (acus,a. needle, pungern, to prick). Acnpundura- tion. The insertion of needles into the skin or flcsli tor remedial pur- poses, as in severe rheumatic affections. ACU'TE DISEASES. Diseases of considerahle severity, rapid progress, and short duration, as distinguished from chrovic, or long con- tinued diseases. Diseases were formerly thus distinguished : morbi acu- iissimi, very acute, lasting only three or four days; morbi subrwtdissimi, lasting seven days ; and morbi suIkicuH, hasting from twenty to forty days. j\CUTENA‘'ClJLUM ((ictis, a needle, tenaculum, a handle). A needle-handle; the name given by lleister to the porte-aiguille. ADDISON’S DISEASE. Dermato-melasma suprare7iale. Disease of the siipra-rcnal capsules, with discoloration of the skin and incurable auicmia. It is also called Cutis ecrea, or “ Bronzed Skin,” though this feature is not e.xclusively indicative of the disease. ADDITAME'NTUM (addere, to add). An addition, an accession. A term applied to the sutiires which connect the parietal and oceipibil hones to the mastoid portion of the tem|ioral. Additamentum pedum hippocampi. The name given to a bulging ob- served in the substance which forms the hottom of the ventricles of the brain ; it follows the direction of the cornua amnionis. ADDU'CTION (addttcere, to draw to), 'fhe movement of a limb towards the median line. It is opposed to abduction. ADDU'CTOR (,adduccre,\.Q draw to). Adducent. A muscle whose office is to bring one part towards another. Thus, the rectus internns is also called adductor oculi. from the action of this muscle in turning the eye towards the nose. Its antagonist is called abductor. ADEI/PIIIA (ddtXt/ids, a brother). Literally, a brotherhood; a term applied in botany to a combination of the filaments of the stamens into a single mass. Thus, if there is only one combination, as in Mallow, the filaments are said to he mrm artelphons ; if there are two, as in Pea, they are di-adelptums ; if three, as in some species of St. .lohn's AVort, they are iri-adelphous; if many, as in Melaleuca, they arc called poly- adelphous. The tube formed by the union of monadelphous filaments is termed, by Mirbel, androphorum. ADEMO'NIA (ddij/iocfco, to be troubled). Trouble, distress. Buttmann derives the term from ddo/uos, not at home, ill at ease. Others reicr it to ddt'tu, to sati.ate; hence dSduwv, cast down. ADE'N (<i3 lit/). This term denotes an acorn; in medical language, ii gland.. Hence the terms, uden-itis, phlegmasia glandiilosa, or inflam- mation of the lymphatic glands ; adtm-g/gia or aden-odynia, pain of a gland; adcn-empiircLvis stopp.age), glandular obstruction; adeno-graphy, a description of the glands ; adeno-logy. a treatise of the glands; a(/cH-oicZ,gland-like, a term applied to flesh-like tumor of the brain, and to chronic mammary tumor; and adeno-tomy section), or iticision of a gl.and. \. Adeno-cele. a tumor). Glandular tumor. “A tumor growing in or near a gland, and more or less perfectly resembling it in structure.” 2. Adeno'ma. A tumor formed by hypertrophy of a lymphatic gland ; a tumor of the mammary gland formed by hv])Crtrophy of the proper gland-structure.