The medical vocabulary, containing a concise explanation of the terms used in medicine and its accessory sciences : to which is appended a selection of Indian medical words in common use / by Robert Fowler.

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1875
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    ADU MB the age between adolescence and old age. Bot. Applied sometimes in same way to the maturity of plants. Adultera'tion (L. adultero,I falsify). The corrupting or debasing by foreign mixture of inferior value. Adus'tion (L. aduro, I scorch). 1. Ancient Pathol. That condition of the body when the serum of the blood was supposed to he dispersed by increased constitutional heat. 2. Surg. The application of any burning substance to the body. Adventitious (L. advenio, I come to). 1. See Acquired Diseases. 2. Applied to tissues the product of disease. 3. Bot. Appearing out of the ordinary course of nature. Adver'se (L. adverto, I turn to- wards). Bot. Opposing; opposite; against. Adversifo'liate. AdversifoTi- ated (L. adversus, against; folium, leaf). Bot. Having leaves opposite or against each other on the same stem. Adynam'ia. Adyn'amy (A, neg.; Svvap.i<;, dunamis, power). Debility; the loss, want, or deficiency of vital power or strength. JEdoeitis (alSoia, aidoia, privy parts; and itis). Inflammation of the organs of generation. JEdceodynia (alSoia, aidoia, privy parts; dSvvr], odune, pain). Pain in the genital orgrns. JEdoeogargalis'mus (alSoTa,aidoia, privy parts; yapyakC£<a, gargalizo, I tickle). Masturbation. Onanism. JEdoeo'graphy (alSoJa, aidoia, privy parts; ypafyu, grapho, I write). A description of the parts of generation. JEdoeo'logy (alSoia, aidoia, privy parts; Aoyos, logos, speech. A treatise or dissertation on the parts of generation. JEdoeomycodermitis (aiSola, aid- oia, privy parts; fj-vxios, muchiO', internal; Sep/aa, derma, skin; and itis). Inflammation of the lining membrane of the parts of generation. JEdceo'psophy (alSoia, aidoia, privy parts; ^o^e'w, psopheS, I sound). The sound caused by the escape of wind from the womb per vaginam, or from the bladder per urethram in females. 16 JEdoeopsy (alSoia, aidoia, privy parts; ot/jig, opsis, seeing). Syn. of ^Edoeoscopy. JEdceoscopy (alSoia, aidoia, privy parts; a-Koneu), skopeo, I look at). An ocular examination of the genitals. JEdoeot'omy (alSoia, aidoia, privy parts; t4[xvoj, temno, I cut). The anatomy or dissection of the genital organs. JEgag'ropilus (ouyaypo?, aigagros, wild goat: 7uA.os, pilos, hair wrought into felt). A concretion found in the stomach of cows, deer, goats, &c., composed of hair which has been swallowed when the animals lick themselves. JEgilops (atf, aix, goat; w<f>, ops, eye; because goats were supposed to be especially subject to it, or from its resemblance to the infra-orbital sac of goats). 1. An ulcer at the inner angle of the eye, communicating or not with the lachrymal sac. 2. Bot. The plant Bromus Sterilis, from its supposed capability of curing the so-called ulcer. JEgobronchophony (aif, aix, goat; (3poyxos, brogchos, windpipe ; <j)<Dvrj, phone, sound). Syn. of iEgo- phony. JEgonia. AEgo'ny (al£, aix, goat; yovrj, gone, produce). A minor degree of aegophony, or a resonance of voice intermediate between well marked bronchophony and segophony. JEgoph'ony (altj, aix, goat; <juavrj, phone, sound). A twanging vibration,or a broken tremulousness of the voice, like the squeak of Punch or the bleat- ing of a goat, heard generally best near the lower angle of the scapula (or at the level of the fluid), where there is moderate effusion into the pleura; and also in some cases of liepatized lung. JEneoce'phalous (L. seneus, of bronze colour; /ce^aAij, kephale,head). Zool. Having the head of a copper colour. ADquator Oculi. The line resulting from the closure of the two eyelids. It is, however, below the centre of the eyeball. Aeration (L. aer, air). The satura- tion or impregnation of a liquid with air, or with fixed air.